The Oratorio That Was Time

Morgan writes "with an authority usually associated with the great novelist of the last century."

Morgan writes with an enviable clarity that makes personalities, issues and event come alive on the page.

One of Robert Morgan's chief claims on our attention is the backbone he puts into the backcountry lore that grounds his work, the stately proprieties and meditative gravity he hews out of the hardscrabble folkways of his native Blue Ridge Mountains... His is a fine-grained, self-implicating intelligence that can span the intricacies of both pine resin and pantoums.