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  • A Death in the Family

    James Agee, Lloyd James, Blackstone Audio, Inc.

    Audiobook (Blackstone Audio, Inc., Nov. 23, 2011)
    Audie Award Nominee, Classic, 2013 Decades 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.
  • A Death in the Family

    James Agee, Steve Earle

    Paperback (Penguin Classics, Sept. 29, 2009)
    The classic American novel—winner of the 1958 Pulitzer Prize—now re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee’s birthOne of Time’s All-Time 100 Best NovelsA 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.
  • A Death in the Family

    James Agee, Steve Earle

    eBook (Penguin Classics, Sept. 10, 2008)
    The classic American novel, re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birthPublished 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.
  • A Death in the Family

    James Agee

    Leather Bound (Franklin Library, Jan. 1, 1979)
    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. The Franklin Library “Limited Edition” series was printed in the mid1970’s using high quality acid-free, neutral paper to promote longevity and true collector value. In addition it has: Full leather binding; Embossed gilt design on front and back boards and spine; Ribbed spine; Full gilt page block; Silk moire end papers; attached red satin page marker. This series is based on books that have won the Pulitzer Prize.
  • A Death in the Family

    James Agee

    Hardcover (McDowell, Obolensky, Jan. 1, 1957)
    This is Agee's posthumously published novel, ironically, about the death of a husband and father in Knoxville, Tennessee and how it affected his family and friends.
  • A Death In The Family

    James Agee

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, July 28, 1998)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The tragedy of Jay Follet's sudden death destroys his family's secure and loving world.
  • A Death In the Family

    James Agee

    Mass Market Paperback (Avon Library Book, Jan. 1, 1968)
    Fiction
  • A Death in the Family

    James Agee

    Paperback (Vintage, July 28, 1998)
    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."An utterly individual and original book...one of the most deeply worked out expressions of human feeling that I have ever read."--Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review"It is, in the full sense, poetry....The language of the book, at once luminous and discreet...remains in the mind."--New Republic"People I know who read A Death in the Family forty years ago still talk about it. So do I. It is a great book, and I'm happy to see it done anew."--Andre Dubus, author of Dancing After Hours and Meditations From A Moveable Chair
  • A Death in the Family: A Novel

    James Agee

    Paperback (Penguin Books, Sept. 10, 2008)
    The American classic—now available from Penguin for the first time 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.
  • A death in the family

    James Agee

    Paperback (Bantam Books, Inc, Jan. 1, 1969)
    On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, who 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 overwhelming powerful novel of innocence, tenderness, and loss that should be read for the sheer music of its prose.
  • A Death in the Family

    James Agee

    Mass Market Paperback (Avon G1034, 1957, Jan. 1, 1957)
    1957
  • A Death in the Family

    James Agee

    Hardcover (McDowell, Obolensky, Jan. 1, 1985)
    Hardcover.