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The Morning Watch

James Agee

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#3457 of 8,085 books · #268 in Young Adult

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (1952).

The Morning Watch explores the thoughts and feelings of 12-year-old Richard, a student at an unnamed Episcopal boarding school, over the course of a few hours in the early morning of Good Friday in 1923. Part I opens with Richard waking up to participate in the 4 AM shift of a nightlong prayer vigil in the school's chapel. Part II finds him going to the chapel, praying, and deciding to attend the 4:30 shift as well. Part III has him leaving the chapel at 5 AM with two other boys, and they all run off to swim in the lake rather than go straight back to their dormitory, knowing they will be punished for this infraction. On their way to the lake, Richard discovers the intact shed skin of a locust, clinging to a tree; at the lake, the boys swim and then kill a snake; as they head back to school, Richard takes the locust shell with him.

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Publisher
Ballantine Books, Inc., published by arrangemetn with Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN-13
9780395073315
Topics
Coming of ageReligious faith and doubtBoyhood and mortality

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