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A Death in the Family
by James Agee
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ISBN13: 9780375701238 |
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Synopses & Reviews
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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.
Review:
"An utterly individual and original book...one of the most deeply worked out expressions of human feeling that I have ever read." New York Times Book Review
Review:
"It is, in the full sense, poetry....The language of the book, at once luminous and discreet...remains in the mind." New Republic
Review:
"People I know who read A Death in the Family forty years ago still talk about it. So do I. It is a great book, and I'm happy to see it done anew." Andre Dubus, author of Dancing After Hours and Meditations From A Moveable Chair
About the Author
James Agee (1909-1955) was a poet, screenwriter, and journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel A Death in the Family.
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Denise Barnett, July 20, 2008 (view all comments by Denise Barnett)
Wow, what a beautiful book. Agee, in Steinbeck tradition, does not waste a single word. Every description is so perfect you can actually see and FEEL it. So sweet and sad but really lovely. James Agee must have been a treat to know because I don't think you could write something this heartfelt without being a kind and gentle soul.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780375701238
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Libri
- Location:
- New York :
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- Boys
- Subject:
- Classics
- Subject:
- Family
- Subject:
- American fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Subject:
- Fathers and sons
- Subject:
- Domestic fiction
- Subject:
- Traffic accident victims
- Subject:
- Bildungsromane.
- Subject:
- Knoxville (Tenn.) Fiction.
- Subject:
- Knoxville
- Copyright:
- 1957
- Edition Number:
- 1
- Edition Description:
- VINTAGE INTL
- Publication Date:
- July 1998
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 320
- Dimensions:
- 8.14x5.18x.72 in. .52 lbs.
