Description: The classic American novel re - published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birth A Penguin Classic One of Time's All - Time 100 Best Novels 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.
Title: A Death In The Family
Barcode: 9780143105718
Publication Date: 9/1/2009