A Death in the Family by James Agee
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.JAMES AGEE (1909-55) was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and joined Fortune in 1932 as a staff writer. Grant Me Travel, his poetry collection, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition two years later. Let Us Now Honor Famous Guys, a 1941 book about Alabama tenant farmers during the Great Depression, was published. Agee was later known for co-writing the screenplays for The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter and for his cinema criticism, which appeared regularly in The Nation and Time. He died two years before A Death in the Family, his greatest work of fiction, was published and awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
When WALKER EVANS (1903-75) began working with James Agee, he was on loan from the Resettlement Administration. In 1945, he joined the Time staff and soon after became an editor at Fortune, where he remained for the next two decades. He became a professor at Yale University School of Art in 1964, where he taught until his death in 1975. Union Atlantic and You Are Not a Stranger Here are written by ADAM HASLETT (introduction).
The Baffler's editor in chief is JOHN SUMMERS (editor).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780375701238 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375701230 |
| Title | A Death in the Family |
| Author | James Agee |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1998-07-28 |
| Number of pages | 310 |
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