The Violent Bear It Away

Name: The Violent Bear It Away
Author: Flannery O'Connor

by Flannery O'Connor

Novel of a young prophet's violence and redemption amid rural Georgia's spiritual darkness

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Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor wrote darkly comic, theologically charged fiction set in the American South, using grotesque characters and violent epiphanies to dramatize the possibility of grace. Her small but intense body of work is among the most distinctive in American literature.

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