![]() ![]() It might be a new hat or clean hogs or, for Hazel Motes, hero of Wise Blood (1952), an automobile. Her fiction brilliantly explores the human obsession with seemingly banal things. This Library of America collection, the most comprehensive ever published, contains all of her novels and short-story collections, as well as nine other stories, eight of her most important essays, and a selection of 259 witty, spirited, and revealing letters, twenty-one published here for the first time. ![]() By birth a native of Georgia and a Roman Catholic, O'Connor depicts, in all its comic and horrendous incongruity, the limits of worldly wisdom and the mysteries of divine grace in the "Christ-haunted" Protestant South. In her short lifetime, Flannery O'Connor became one of the most distinctive American writers of the twentieth century. ![]()
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