A Death in the Family: A Restoration of the Author's Text (Collected Works of James Agee) [Hardcover]

Michael A. Lofaro (Editor)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 615 pages
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press; 1 edition (December 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572335947
• ISBN-13: 978-1572335943
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,153,686 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well worth buying & reading, May 12, 2011

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-- whether or not you have McDowell's original version, which he edited drastically. This edition contains a large amount of new material and has been rearranged according to Lofaro's careful judgments of Agee's intent. The chapter about the visit to the amusement park is both charming and heartbreaking; I cannot imagine why McDowell omitted it. It is also interesting to learn that Agee originally used the real names of the characters (here restored); that news strengthens one's notion of Agee's autobiographical intent.

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5.0 out of 5 stars MORE THAN A DEATH IN THE FAMILY, July 12, 2011

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James Agee wrote this autobiographical novel with his heart and soul and with this restored work his genius rises to its fullest height. This is such a beautiful- and heartbreaking- realization of the tragedy that foreshadowed his own life that it resonates on many levels. An American masterpiece.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Death in the Family by James Agee, March 18, 2011

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My 25 year old daughter is starting her own classic library. I had to get her this book because it is set in our hometown and he is a hometown boy. A MUST READ!