""Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and
disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly
moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give
my work its chief characteristics.""
--Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor's work has been described as "profane,
blasphemous, and outrageous." Her stories are peopled by a sordid
caravan of murderers and thieves, prostitutes and bigots whose
lives are punctuated by horror and sudden violence. But perhaps the
most shocking thing about Flannery O'Connor's fiction is the fact
that it is shaped by a thoroughly Christian vision. If the world
she depicts is dark and terrifying, it is also the place where
grace makes itself known. Her world--our world--is the stage
whereon the divine comedy plays out; the freakishness and violence
in O'Connor's stories, so often mistaken for a kind of misanthropy
or even nihilism, turn out to be a call to mercy.
In this biography, Jonathan Rogers gets at the heart of
O'Connor's work. He follows the roots of her fervent Catholicism
and traces the outlines of a life marked by illness and suffering,
but ultimately defined by an irrepressible joy and even hilarity.
In her stories, and in her life story, Flannery O'Connor extends a
hand in the dark, warning and reassuring us of the terrible speed
of mercy.
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