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Forty years after her death, Flannery O’Connor’s fiction still retains its original power and pertinence. For those looking to deepen their appreciation of this literary icon, "Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South" breaks important new ground, using O’Connor’s work as a window onto... read more

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Speaking magisterially for her fellow Catholics in the American South, Flannery O'Connor offered a startling prophecy at the close of a 1959 book review: "It is an embarrassment to our fundamentalist neighbors," she wrote, "to realize that they are doctrinally nearer their traditional enemy, the Church of Rome, than they are to modern Protestantism.

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  1. Ralph C. Wood (Author)
 

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