num_pages: 144
description: James Agee, whose death at the age of 45 cut short a brilliant career in American letters, is best known to millions of readers for his posthumous novel, A Death in the Family.In The Morning Watch, his only other published novel, the extraordinary power of language and the themes that so moved readers of A Death in the Family may already be seen. In prose of astonishing clarity and intensity, Agee captured the portrait of an appealing and very real boy - serious, pitiable, funny - at the moment of his initiation into a feared yet fascinating world.
language: English
title: The Morning Watch
titlecomplete: The Morning Watch
genres: Fiction, Religion, American, Coming Of Age, Literature
ratings_count: 197
places: Tennessee
awards: awardedAt: -568051200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Avon Books