All very confusing, I bought this as I thought I had really enjoyed Agee's 'A Death in the Family' which I read as part of the 100 essential novels. However, it turns out I was thinking about Robert Penn Warren's 'All The King's Men', a fictionalised biography of Huey Long. Reading the synopsis of 'a Death in the Family' I don't remember it at all, and 'Let Us now Praise Famous Men' was really hard work and difficult to describe. It's far more than the reportage on poverty-stricken rural white Alabama sharecroppers expected, and quickly becomes experimental with literary forms, musings on the nature of writing, and 100 page descriptions of rooms. I ended up skim-reading, again. On the bright side, my covid isolation ended today and I could leave the house and go for a run. Autumn has arrived, the common is transformed with leaves underfoot and frost everywhere. I feel like I've been robbed of two weeks of ideal running weather. Still, if that is my major concern I've been let off covid very lightly.
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