Always Straight Ahead (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Alma Neuman
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: The 1930’s to the 1980’s
- Setting: Upstate New York, New York City, Alabama, Mexico, and East Berlin
- Principal Characters: Alma Neuman, James Agee, Bono Uhse, Joel Agee, Stefan Uhse, Alfred Miller
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Love or romance, Authors or writers, Jews or Jewish life, Liberalism, Nazism or Nazis, Bohemianism, Germany or German people
- Locales: New York, NY, Mexico, Alabama, East Berlin, East Germany
In the late 1970’s, long after his death (1955), Alma Neuman received a letter from her first husband, the famous American journalist, novelist, and film critic James Agee. Written in 1953, the letter had taken more than twenty years to reach her. A “stranger” had found the letter among Agee’s manuscripts shortly after his death, misplaced it, and then found it again years later and sent it on. Agee had remarried, was the father of two children by his second wife (Alma was the mother of Agee’s first child, Joel), had taken an “Irish girl” as lover, and yet, despite all the...
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