The Morning Watch
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| Author | James Agee |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Published | 1951 (Houghton Mifflin) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 120 pp |
The Morning Watch is a short autobiographical novel which author James Agee began writing in 1947.[1] 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."[2]
Plot
The novel is based on the early student life of Agee at St. Andrew's-Sewanee School in Sewanee, Tennessee, and at Phillips Exeter Academy.
Editions
This work by James Agee has remained largely out of print, though the Library of America has published the work in a volume collecting Agee's long prose works, as loa series no. 159.