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A death in the family

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A death in the family
James Agee
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An edition of A Death in the Family (1957)

A death in the family

a restoration of the author's text

1st ed

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.67 ·
  • 3 Ratings
  • 45 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 6 Have read

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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Publisher
University of Tennessee Press
Language
English
Pages
582

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Subjects
Literature, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Boys, Traffic accident victims, Family relationships, Death, Families, Fathers, Grief, Parents, Large type books
People
James Agee (1909-1955)
Places
Knoxville (Tenn.), Knoxville, Tennessee

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A death in the family: a restoration of the author's text
2007, University of Tennessee Press
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A death in the family
1998, Vintage Books
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A death in the family.
1957, McDowell, Obolensky
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Includes bibliographical references

Published in
Knoxville
Series
The works of James Agee -- v. 1
Genre
Fiction

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3501.G35 D43 2007

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Pagination
xxxiii, 582 p. ;
Number of pages
582

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OL17249566M
ISBN 10
1572335947
ISBN 13
9781572335943
LCCN
2007011564
Library Thing
9013398
Goodreads
1271645

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