- Literature, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Boys
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.
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- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- James Agee
- First published
- 1957
- Pages
- 339
- Publisher
- Panther Books Ltd, Owen, Quartet
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780553270112
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“We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I live there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.”
James Rufus Agee was an American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous Pulitzer Prize. Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Agee
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