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. A novel of great courage, lyric force, and powerful emotion. "Published in 1957 to wide acclaim, James Agee's A Death in the Family was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. However, the novel had been so heavily edited by publisher...

New perspective of the man and the myth.