num_pages: 320
description: 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.
language: English
title: A Death in the Family
titlecomplete: A Death in the Family
genres: Classics, American, Southern, Novels, Family, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 16122
places: Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
awards: awardedAt: -378662400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: -378662400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage