{"product_id":"twelve-years-joel-agee-9780226010502","title":"Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany","description":"Joel Agee, the son of James Agee, was raised for twelve years in East Germany, where his stepfather, the novelist Bodo Uhse, was a member of the privileged communist intelligentsia. This is the story of how young Joel failed to become a good communist, becoming instead a fine writer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A wonderfully evocative memoir. . . . Agee evoked for me the atmosphere of postwar Berlin more vividly than the actual experience of it--and I was there.\" --Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of those rare personal memoirs that brings to life a whole country and an epoch.\" --Christopher Isherwood \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Twelve Years consists of a series of finely honed anecdotes written in a precise, supple prose rich with sensual detail.\" --David Ghitelman, \u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"By turns poetic and picturesque, Agee energetically catalogues his expatriate passage to manhood with a pinpoint eye and a healthy American distaste for pretension. . . . Huckleberry Finn would have . . . welcomed [him] as a soulmate on the raft.\" --J. D. Reed, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A triumph. . . . Unfettered by petty analysis or quick explanations, a story that is timeless and ageless and vital.\" --Robert Michael Green, \u003ci\u003eBaltimore Sun\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joel Agee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226010503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226010502\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.55h x 5.71w x 0.82d","brand":"Joel Agee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994820641023,"sku":"9780226010502","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_22c092af-ac95-4167-9b44-7ef5136e696c.jpg?v=1683332370","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/twelve-years-joel-agee-9780226010502","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}