A Death in the Family

By:

James Agee

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Penguin Modern Classics

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A reissue in a beautiful new PMC jacket of one of the 20th century's great American novels 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.

Author Biography:

James Agee was born in Tennesse in 1909 and graduated from Harvard University. His renowned study of Alabama sharecroppers during the Depression, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, appeared in 1941. Agee was known for his movie reviews and screenplays, and published a volume of poetry and a novella. He died in 1955, two years before his major work of fiction, A Death in the Family, was published and won the Pulitzer Prize.

Release date Australia

April 6th, 2006

Author

James Agee

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Introduction by Blake Morrison

Pages

336

Series

Penguin Modern Classics

Dimensions

129x198x19

ISBN-13

9780141187969

Product ID

1734766

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