Death in the family – James Agie | Novel

In the book "A Death in the Family" we tell you about the summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, when I lived there disguised from myself, in the most skillful way, in a child's costume. After it was published two years after the death of its author at the age of forty-five, "A Death in the Family" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1958, and even now, after more than sixty years, remains a literary masterpiece, a semi-autobiographical novel embodying the tragedy of losing a father like no other novel has. Jay Follett rushes back to his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, and is killed in a car accident — a tragedy that not only ends a life but also destroys family happiness and warm love in the small family home. A novel that carries in its heart courage, poetic vigor, and overwhelming emotion; a novel that is an icon in American literature.