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Death in the Family

Death in the Family Mass market paperbound - 1982

by James Agee


Summary

Forty years after its original publication, James Agee's last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man's death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then showed how quickly and casually it could be destroyed.On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly. Dancing back and forth in time and braiding the viewpoints of Jay's wife, brother, and young son, Rufus, Agee creates an overwhelmingly powerful novel of innocence, tenderness, and loss that should be read aloud for the sheer music of its prose.

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The classic American novel--winner of the 1958 Pulitzer Prize--now re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birth One of Time's All-Time 100 Best Novels A Penguin Classic

Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written. As Jay Follet hurries back to his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, he is killed in a car accident--a tragedy that destroys not only a life, but also the domestic happiness and contentment of a young family. A novel of great courage, lyric force, and powerful emotion, A Death in the Family is a masterpiece of American literature.

First line

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I live there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

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  • Title Death in the Family
  • Author James Agee
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Pages 318
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bantam Books, Westminster, MD, U.S.A.
  • Date December 1, 1982
  • ISBN 9780553233926 / 0553233920
  • Weight 0.36 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 940
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

James Agee (1909­-1955) is the author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the renowned study of Alabama sharecroppers during the Depression. Born in Tennessee, he died two years before the publication of A Death in the Family, his most famous work. Steve Earle (introducer) is an American singer-songwriter, political activist, and author of the short story collection Doghouse Roses. Born in Virginia, he lives with his wife in New York City.
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