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A Death in the Family: A Novel

Penguin Books

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UPC:
9780143115847
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2008-09-10
Release Date:
2008-09-10
Author:
James Agee
Language:
english
Edition:
1
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The American classicnow available from Penguin for the first time

Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five,A Death in the Familyremains 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 accidenta 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 Familyis a masterpiece of American literature.