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A novella (only 120 pages) about an adolescent boy at an Episcopalian church school and his time spent “keeping watch” in the school chapel in the early morning hours of Good Friday, and his struggles with understanding how to be a good Christian. An interesting read on a lazy Saturday morning.
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The Morning Watch is a short autobiographical novel which author James Agee began writing in 1947. Completing the text in 1950, Agee wrote to John Huston that the protagonist was a "12-year-old boy (roughly myself) at edge of puberty, peak of certain kinds of hypersensitive introversion, isolation, and a certain priggishness."
- James Agee
- 1951
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2. März 2019 · The morning watch. by. Agee, James, 1909-1955. Publication date. 1950. Publisher. Boston : Houghton Mifflin. Collection. trent_university; internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled.
The Morning Watch by James Agee, like his A Death in the Family, which won him the Pulitzer Prize, is autobiographical. It describes the experiences of twelve-year-old Richard during the early hours of Good Friday and the early stages of spring, in a church school in the Tennessee mountains.
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In Agee's Pulitzer-prize-winning, autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family, he tells the devastating story of his father's death in an auto accident when Agee was a young boy. The Morning Watch, a slim novel, takes place six years later.
While Agee's posthumous novel indeed discloses much about his painful childhood, The Morning Watch, the largely ignored short novel which deals with a nearly identical persona at a point six years after his father's death, uncovers. considerably more about the lasting effects ofthe family tragedy.
