The classic American novel, re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birth A Penguin Classic One of Time’s All-Time 100 Best Novels 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 (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

AGEE, JAMES

United States

Penguin Classics

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: A Novel

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Collected Poems of James Agee

Poetry

Yale Univ Pr

Collected Short Prose

Ballantine Books

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

Vintage

"In my opinion, [Agee's] column is the most remarkable regular event in American journalism today."--W. H. Auden James Agee was passionately involved with the movies throughout his life. A master of both fiction and nonfiction, he wrote about film in clean, smart prose as the reviewer for Time magazine and as a columnist for The Nation. Agee was particularly perceptive about the work of his friend John Huston and recognized the artistic merit of certain B films such as The Curse of the Cat People and other movies produced by Val Lewton.

Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies (Modern Library the Movies)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Modern Library

The Morning Watch

Contemporary

Avon/Books

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee photographed by Walker Evans. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1973. This portrait of poverty-stricken Southern tenant farmers during the Great Depression has become one of the most influential books of the past century. In 1936, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans, on assignment for Fortune magazine explore the daily lives of white sharecroppers in the south. Black cloth binding, shelf wear, wear to dust jacket.

EVANS, Walker

Literary

Houghton, Mifflin Company

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The Collected Poems of James Agee

Houghton/Mifflin

Letters of James Agee to Father Flye

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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