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A Death in the Family.
by AGEE, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, (1957).
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, (1957] First edition, first state (with title page printed in blue, and "walking" for "waking" on page 80, line 1) Octavo (85" x 575"), 6 preliminary leaves, 3 - 339, & [1] pp Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver & decorated in pale green, in pictorial dust jacket
Margins sunned, dust jacket titling faintly offset to upper cover, bottom corners lightly bumped, previous owner's name in ink at front free endpaper, small booksellers' label at rear pastedown, otherwise very good in very good price-clipped dust jacket with brief edge wear & rubbing
Published posthumously, Agee's autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family, won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize
"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" ~Abstract courtesy OCLC
Synopsis
A Death in the Family is an autobiographical novel by author James Agee, set in Knoxville, Tennessee. He began writing it in 1948, but it was not quite complete when he died in 1955. It was edited and released posthumously in 1957 by editor David McDowell. Agee's widow and children were left with little money after Agee's death and McDowell wanted to help them by publishing the work. Agee won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1958 for the novel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1445
- Title
- A Death in the Family.
- Author
- AGEE, James
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- McDowell, Obolensky
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1957)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Pulitzer Prize, Modern First Edition, James Agee, First Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sex & Death; Literature, Fiction, Poetry; Biography, Autobiography;
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