Restoration ...

... Agee Unfettered. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Why don’t our novelists write in Agee’s tender high style these days? Either something has gone out of the world, or something has gone out of them. His book reads like a prayer, an attempt to breathe life into the dead through mighty exertions of language.

I do think McDowell deserves great credit for saving the novel in the first place. It's always easy to second-guess an editor.