A Death in the Family (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: James Agee
- First Published: 1957
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Family or family life, Mothers, Parents and children, South or Southerners, Marriage, Religion, 1910’s, Emotions, Death or dying, Funeral rites or ceremonies, Bereavement or grief, Boys, Mortality
- Locales: South (U.S.), Knoxville, TN
The Work
James Agee’s autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family, recalls his tranquil childhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the tragic event that hastened his loss of innocence and security—the death of his father, Hugh James (Jay) Agee. The novel’s manuscript, on which its author had been working for years, was left incomplete at Agee’s sudden death in 1955. Edited and published in 1957, it was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in fiction.
A Death in the Family offers a compelling look at the Follet family’s reaction to the death of a young father,...
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