Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever writ...Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written.