Twelve Years

An American Boyhood in East Germany

By: Joel Agee

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Paperback | 1 June 2000 | Edition Number 1

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334 Pages

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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.

"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, New York Times

"One of those rare personal memoirs that brings to life a whole country and an epoch." --Christopher Isherwood

"Twelve Years consists of a series of finely honed anecdotes written in a precise, supple prose rich with sensual detail." --David Ghitelman, Newsday

"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, Time

"A triumph. . . . Unfettered by petty analysis or quick explanations, a story that is timeless and ageless and vital." --Robert Michael Green, Baltimore Sun

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"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 "Time " "A triumph. . . . Unfettered by petty analysis or quick explanations, a story that is timeless and ageless and vital."--Robert Michael Green "Baltimore Sun " A triumph. . . . Unfettered by petty analysis or quick explanations, a story that is timeless and ageless and vital. --Robert Michael Green "Baltimore Sun "" 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 "Time "" 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 "New York Times "" One of those rare personal memoirs that brings to life a whole country and an epoch. --Christopher Isherwood" "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 "New York Times " "One of those rare personal memoirs that brings to life a whole country and an epoch." --Christopher Isherwood

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