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A Death in the Family. A Death in the Family is an autobiographical novel by James Agee. It was based on events which occurred to Agee in 1915, when his father went out of town to see his own father, who had suffered a heart attack. During the return trip, Agee's father was killed in a car crash.
- James Agee
- United States
- 1957
- 339 pp
A Death in the Family opens with a young boy, Rufus, and his father, Jay, taking a trip to the movie theater together. They enjoy this time spent just between the two of them. On the way home, they stop by a pub so Jay can get a drink. After they return home, Rufus hears his father go out again.
- James Agee
- 1957
A Death in the Family is a Pulitzer-Prize winning heavily autobiographical novel by James Agee that was first published in 1957. The novel treats Agee’s recollections of the death of his father and its aftermath in Knoxville, Tennessee, when he was six years old in 1915. Agee was finishing up the novel when he suddenly died of a heart attack ...
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The classic American novel, re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birth. 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.
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Sep 29, 2009 · The classic American novel—winner of the 1958 Pulitzer Prize —now re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee ’ s birth One of Time ’s All-Time 100 Best Novels 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 ...
- James Agee
- $13.99
- Penguin Classics
About A Death in the Family. 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.
Awards And Honors: Pulitzer Prize. A Death in the Family, novel by James Agee about a family’s reactions to the accidental death of the father. The novel, published in 1957, was praised as one of the best examples of American autobiographical fiction, and it won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958. As told through the eyes of six-year-old Rufus Follet ...
