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Death in the Family Mass market paperbound - 1982
by James Agee
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Forty years after its original publication, James Agee's last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man's death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then showed how quickly and casually it could be destroyed.On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly. Dancing back and forth in time and braiding the viewpoints of Jay's wife, brother, and young son, Rufus, Agee creates an overwhelmingly powerful novel of innocence, tenderness, and loss that should be read aloud for the sheer music of its prose.
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We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I live there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
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- Title Death in the Family
- Author James Agee
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Pages 318
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bantam Books, Westminster, MD, U.S.A.
- Publication date December 1, 1982
- ISBN 9780553233926 / 0553233920
- Weight 0.36 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 940
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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