All the Way Home (by Tad Mosel) reshapes for the stage the late James Agee's extraordinary Pulitzer prizewinner, A Death in the Family. The undertaking could not but be hazardous: beyond the tact that Agee's novel was not quite finished and not quite a novel, what made it memorable was the highly personal charge of the writing fine special sharpness of detail and as uncanny a gift of memory as of metaphor. And what the book had. in the absence of all unity of form, was marked unity of feeling. Considering how much A...
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