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A Death in the Family

James Agee

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1957
Pages
Pages 340

In a Tennessee town in 1915, a father drives out one night to see his own ailing father and dies on the way home in a car crash, and the book follows his wife and small son through the day of his death and the funeral after it.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
A Death in the Family, James Agee

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