A Death In The Family James Agee by James Agee 9780143105718, 014310571X instant download after payment.

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, for 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. 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, James Agee creates an overwhelmingly powerful novel of innocence, tenderness, and loss that should be read aloud for the sheer music of its prose. A novel of great courage, lyric force, and powerful emotion, A Death in the Family is a masterpiece of American literature.

"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

James Agee (1909­–1955) is the author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the renowned study of Alabama sharecroppers during the Depression. Born in Tennessee, he died two years before the publication of A Death in the Family, his most famous work. Steve Earle (introducer) is an American singer-songwriter, political activist, and author of the short story collection Doghouse Roses. Born in Virginia, he lives with his wife in New York City.