A Death in the Family (Penguin Classics) by Agee, James

ISBN: 014310571X

Author: Agee, James

Condition: new

The classic American novel-winner of the 1958 Pulitzer Prize-now re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agees birthOne of Times All-Time 100 Best NovelsA Penguin ClassicPublished 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.