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A Death in the Family Paperback - 2009
by James Agee; Introduction by Steve Earle
Summary
The classic American novel, re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee?s birth
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.
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.
Details
- Title A Death in the Family
- Author James Agee; Introduction by Steve Earle
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Centennial
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2009-09-01
- ISBN 9780143105718 / 014310571X
- Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 7.74 x 5.14 x 0.56 in (19.66 x 13.06 x 1.42 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 940
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-South
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Geographic Orientation: Tennessee
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Boys
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011378283
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"[James Agee's words] are so indelibly etched someplace inside of me that I couldn't reach to rub them out even if I wanted to. And I never want to."
-Steve Earle, from the Introduction
"The work of a writer whose power with English words can make you gasp."
-Alfred Kazin, The New York Times Book Review
" It is, in the full sense, poetry. . . . The language of the book, at once luminous and discreet . . . remains in the mind."
-The New Republic
" Wonderfully alive."
-The New Yorker
-Steve Earle, from the Introduction
"The work of a writer whose power with English words can make you gasp."
-Alfred Kazin, The New York Times Book Review
" It is, in the full sense, poetry. . . . The language of the book, at once luminous and discreet . . . remains in the mind."
-The New Republic
" Wonderfully alive."
-The New Yorker
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