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A Death in the Family (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143105718)
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xThe 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 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.
Author: James Agee
ISBN-10: 014310571X
ISBN-13: 9780143105718
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2009
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.14w x 0.56d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 16
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 10835 / Death in the Family
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.
Author: James Agee
ISBN-10: 014310571X
ISBN-13: 9780143105718
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2009
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.14w x 0.56d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 16
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 10835 / Death in the Family
By James Agee
xJames 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.
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