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The Morning Watch is a slim but powerful and meditative poem-like novel

March 14, 2021 Rachel Hoover Canto 1

James Agee’s short 1950 novel The Morning Watch, recently republished by Angelico Press, is the kind of book about which little can be said without spoiling it. Nevertheless, I will try to say just enough […]

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