· In All the Living, C.E. Morgan roots herself so firmly in the soil of a rural southern landscape that it would take a track excavator to haul her out. But we don’t want to do that. For All the Living is an excellent debut for Morgan, a bold book of small incidents and large emotions. It is the work of an author unafraid to wrestle with language and if, at times, language wins out, well then, it’s merely Author: Elinor Teele. · Morgan writes with the deeply religious sense that all life is somehow connected, and that God is part of a continuum that begins with the land, the place where life begins. The three main characters here--Aloma, Orren, and Bell Johnson--are fully developed, and Morgan does not need to tell us how they feel: their reactions to what is happening to them are so fully realized that the reader 5/5(5). · Review: All the Living by CE Morgan A Biblically titled novel filled with astonishing language, says Catherine TaylorEstimated Reading Time: 50 secs.
Review: All the Living by CE Morgan A Biblically titled novel filled with astonishing language, says Catherine Taylor. C. E. Morgan. Title: Practice Q2 All the Living Author: Lowther, Katherine Created Date: 5/12/ AM. But whoever is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion." And newcomer Morgan's work is far better than many a wheezing, padded, formula novel squatting on.
Thus for C.E. Morgan’s description of Aloma’s experiences, in the excerpt from All the Living, to give the reader the sense of her complex emotions, the description itself must be nuanced. Morgan employs tone, imagery, and figurative language to give that nuanced description of the combination of hope, loss, loneliness, indifference, and fear that Aloma experiences. This is a stark book, a book of emptiness, desire and desecration of the spirit. Under less capable hands it might not have worked, but C. E. Morgan is a master. She is an exquisite writer and it is difficult to believe that this is a debut novel. In many ways, it reminded me of Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. Morgan is a writer to keep on your radar. C.E. Morgan is an American author born in She studied English and voice at Berea College and holds a master's in theological studies from Harvard Divinity School. The author of the novel All the Living, she is a recipient of the National Book Foundations 5 under 35 award and a Lannan Literary Fellowship.
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