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The classic American novel, re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birth A Penguin Classic One of Time 's All-Time 100 Best Novels 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... Read Full Overview

Published in 1957 to wide acclaim, James Agee's A Death in the Family was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for literature. However, the novel had been so heavily edited by publisher and editor David McDowell that it little resembled the manuscript that James Agee had completed... Read Full Overview

The American classic--now available from Penguin for the first time 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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview