![]() ![]() Indeed, he argues here that O'Connor's fiction has lasting, even universal, significance precisely because it is rooted in the confessional witness of her Roman Catholicism and in the Christ-haunted character of the American South. He uses O'Connor's work as a window onto its own regional and religious ethos. ![]() ![]() Unique to Wood's approach is his concern to show how O'Connor's stories, novels, and essays impinge on America's cultural and ecclesial condition. For those looking to deepen their appreciation of this literary icon, it breaks important new ground. Wood offers one of the finest introductions available. For those who know nothing of O'Connor and her work, this new study by Ralph C. Forty years after her death, O'Connor's fiction still retains its original power and pertinence. ![]() Flannery O'Connor was only the second twentieth-century writer (after William Faulkner) to have her work collected for the Library of America, the definitive edition of American authors. ![]()
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