A Death in the Family - James Agee

In A Death in the Family we tell you about my summer nights in Knoxville, Tennessee, when I lived there disguised myself, so skillfully, as a child.” Published two years after its author’s death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature novelist in 1958, and it is still, after more than sixty years, a literary masterpiece, an autobiographical novel that embodies the tragedy of losing a father as no other novel has embodied.

Jay Follett rushes home to Knoxville, Tennessee, and is killed in a car accident--a tragedy that takes not just one life, but family happiness and warm love in the young family's home. A novel that carries in its heart courage, the vigor of the poem, and the overwhelming passion; A novel that is an icon in American literature.