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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. 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, for 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. 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, James Agee creates an overwhelmingly powerful novel of innocence, tenderness, and loss that should be read aloud for the sheer music of its prose. A novel of great courage, lyric force, and powerful emotion, A Death in the Family is a masterpiece of American literature."An utterly individual and original book...one of the most deeply worked out expressions of human feeling that

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Author

James Agee

Publisher

Center Point Publishing

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780553270112

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction