{"product_id":"twelve-years-an-american-boyhood-in-east-germany-9780226010502","title":"Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joel Agee\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoel 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614484480151,"sku":"9780226010502","price":3857.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226010502.webp?v=1775094080","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/twelve-years-an-american-boyhood-in-east-germany-9780226010502","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}