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An edition of A Death in the Family (1957)

A death in the family

1st Vintage International ed.

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  • ★★★ ★ 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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Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
310

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

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A death in the family.
1957, McDowell, Obolensky
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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.52
Library of Congress
PS3501.G35 D43 1998

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ix, 310 p. :
Number of pages
310

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OL66346M
Internet Archive
deathfamily00agee
ISBN 10
0375701230
LCCN
99164384
OCLC/WorldCat
39690879
Library Thing
61274
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113091

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