A Death in the Family

A Death in the FamilyThe classic American novel winner of the 1958 Pulitzer Prize now re published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birth One of Time's All Time 100 Best Novels A Penguin Classic 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. As Jay Follet hurries

The classic American novel--winner of the 1958 Pulitzer Prize--now re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birth

One of Time's All-Time 100 Best Novels

A Penguin Classic

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. 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 09/01/2009
ISBN: 9780143105718
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.14w x 0.56d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 10835 / Death in the Family
Reading Level: 6.1 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 16