eva's review
A Death in the Family
by James Agee
eva's review
A Death in the Family by James Agee
eva's review
rating:
recommended for: book club
I am about 75 pages in. This is beautifully written--it can be slow at times, but my frustration with that is more a product of general impatience and desire to get immediate satisfaction from a read than it is a measure of how good the book is... I hate how easily I get bored sometimes.
I continued to feel this way up until almost the end of the book. It was quite amazing, though, how very much Agee climbed into the heads of the two children, Rufus and Catherine. The book was published posthumously, and without any revisions, so I do wonder how it might have changed with the interaction of editor and writer. In all though, the themes of grief, death, family, God, and race are interweaved in a quite artful and thought-provoking way.
I continued to feel this way up until almost the end of the book. It was quite amazing, though, how very much Agee climbed into the heads of the two children, Rufus and Catherine. The book was published posthumously, and without any revisions, so I do wonder how it might have changed with the interaction of editor and writer. In all though, the themes of grief, death, family, God, and race are interweaved in a quite artful and thought-provoking way.
