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.
A novel of great courage, lyric force, and powerful emotion, A Death in the Family is a masterpiece of American literature..
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.
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