| A Death in the Family Contributor(s): Agee, James (Author), Earle, Steve (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 014310571X ISBN-13: 9780143105718 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2009 Annotation: Agee's portrayal of the sweetness of day-to-day familial relations are powerful and poignant. His masterfully drawn characters take on a haunting reality in this vivid recreation of life -- and sudden death. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2011378283 |
| Lexile Measure: 940 |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.14" W x 7.74" (0.48 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Tennessee |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 10835 Reading Level: 6.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 16.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The 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. |