McDowell, Obolensky publishes
ACEE ON FILM
Criticism and Comment on the Movies
by JAMES ACEE
"The finest critic of films
this
country has produced
j
some
enterprising publisher should bring cut a collection of
his
re–
views."-PAUL PICKREL,
Harper's
(December 1957)
"Now it has been done ... and the result is a book that will
fascinate anyone who is interested in either films or reviewing,
or-for that matter-anyone interested in seeing an acute,
vigorous, resourceful intelligence confronting popular
art
and
reporting on it in a fine free-swinging style. Most of the book
is made up of reviews Agee contributed to the
Nation
during
the 1940s, but there is also a generous sample of the reviews
he was writing anonymously in the same years for
Time,
as
well as a couple of essays on the movies he wrote for other
periodicals."-PAUL PICKREL,
Harper's
(December 1958)
IUustrated $6.00
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. and
JAMES ACEE'S
Pulitzer Prize novel
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
"Utterly individual and original ... the work of a writer
whose power with English words can make you gasp.... One
of the most deeply worked out expressions of human feeling
that
I
have ever read."-ALFRED KAZIN,
N. Y . Times
6th printing $3.95
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