A Death in the Family
$32.08
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
16 June 2021
Summary
A reissue in a beautiful new PMC jacket of one of the 20th century’s great American 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 l…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141187969 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141187964 |
| Author: | James Agee, Blake Morrison |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 16 June 2021 |
| Weight: | 251g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 130mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Audience Age: | 14-18 |
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Critics Review
”[James Agee’s words] are so indelibly etched someplace inside of me that I couldn’t reach to rub them out even if I wanted to. And I never want to.”
-Steve Earle, from the Introduction
“The work of a writer whose power with English words can make you gasp.”
-Alfred Kazin, “The New York Times Book Review”
“ It is, in the full sense, poetry… . The language of the book, at once luminous and discreet … remains in the mind.”
-“The New Republic”
“ Wonderfully alive.”
-“The New Yorker”
a The work of a writer whose power with English words can make you gasp.a
aAlfred Kazin, “The New York Times Book Review”
a It is, in the full sense, poetry… . The language of the book, at once luminous and discreet … remains in the mind.a
a”The New Republic”
a Brilliant, moving, and written with … objectivity and control… . It is wonderfully alive.a
a”The New Yorker”
James Agee
James Agee was born in Tennessee in 1909 and graduated from Harvard University. His renowned study of Alabama sharecroppers during the Depression, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, appeared in 1941. Agee was known for his movie reviews and screenplays, and published a volume of poetry and a novella. He died in 1955, two years before his major work of fiction, A Death in the Family, was published and won the Pulitzer Prize.
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