A Death in the Family
James Agee
Hardcover
(McDowell, Obolensky / BOMC, March 15, 1986)
Book-of-the-Month Club edition reissued in celebration of the club's 60th anniversary. The pamphlet issued with the edition has notes by Alfred Kazin with a copyright date of 1986. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Death in the Family, James Agee reconstructs through the lens of fiction the real-life car accident that claimed his father when James was not yet six years old.