A Death in the Family Book Reviews

AUTHOR
James Agee & Steve Earle
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
235

A Death in the Family by James Agee & Steve Earle Book Summary

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.

On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly. Dancing back and forth in time and braiding the viewpoints of Jay's wife, brother, and young son, Rufus, Agee creates an overwhelmingly powerful novel of innocence, tenderness, and loss that should be read aloud for the sheer music of its prose.

"An utterly individual and original book...one of the most deeply worked out expressions of human feeling that I have ever read."--Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review

"It is, in the full sense, poetry....The language of the book, at once luminous and discreet...remains in the mind."--New Republic

"People I know who read A Death in the Family forty years ago still talk about it. So do I. It is a great book, and I'm happy to see it done anew."--Andre Dubus, author of Dancing After Hours and Meditations From A Moveable Chair

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Book Name A Death in the Family
Genre Literary
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Language English
E-Book Size 1.45 MB

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Horrible- don’t read it (unless you have to). I was required to read this for school. It’s probably one of the worst books I’ve ever read and I would rate it 0 stars if I could. The book is boring and completely uninteresting. There are WAY too many details. It’s frustrating while you are reading it because it talks about the same thing on and on and on. The book went no where. It was a bad story and a bad ending. I would definitely not reccomend. at all. There was honestly no story to it. It was just bad. plain bad.

This is amazing writing. .. passages that ring true - if you allow yourself to become invested in the text ; there's an amazing & profound depth. Just great.

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Summary of A Death in the Family by James Agee & Steve Earle

The A Death in the Family book written by James Agee & Steve Earle was published on 10 September 2008, Wednesday in the Literary category. A total of 235 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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