I'm currently reading Flannery O'Connor's second novel, "The Violent Bear it Away." It's amazing.
O'Connor was and is definitely one of the best american authors to ever have lived, and undoubtedly the best female author to come from this country. Her short stories, and you've probably read some, are phenomenal. High school kids read them a lot in class--"A Good Man is Hard to Find," "Good Country People," "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," etc.--and honestly they are some of the best pieces of short fiction ever written. She writes in the southern gothic style with "grotesque" characters (I disagree with the term--I prefer to think she gives them life instead of making them grotesque).
She is a very religious writer in that catholic influence is present in her novel, but they are not preachy. Quite the opposite really. Her writing is dark.
Check her out! You won't be disappointed.
O'Connor was and is definitely one of the best american authors to ever have lived, and undoubtedly the best female author to come from this country. Her short stories, and you've probably read some, are phenomenal. High school kids read them a lot in class--"A Good Man is Hard to Find," "Good Country People," "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," etc.--and honestly they are some of the best pieces of short fiction ever written. She writes in the southern gothic style with "grotesque" characters (I disagree with the term--I prefer to think she gives them life instead of making them grotesque).
She is a very religious writer in that catholic influence is present in her novel, but they are not preachy. Quite the opposite really. Her writing is dark.
Check her out! You won't be disappointed.
