A Death in the Family

Description

The classic American novel–winner of the 1958 Pulitzer Prize–now re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee‘s birth

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. 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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: James Agee,Steve Earle (Introduction by)
Published: 09/01/2009
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780143105718
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 0.56″ H x 7.74″ L x 5.14″ W

About the Author
James Agee (1909­-1955) is the author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the renowned study of Alabama sharecroppers during the Depression. Born in Tennessee, he died two years before the publication of A Death in the Family, his most famous work.

Steve Earle (introducer) is an American singer-songwriter, political activist, and author of the short story collection Doghouse Roses. Born in Virginia, he lives with his wife in New York City.