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Flannery O'Connor · 1955
A collection of short stories by Flannery O'Connor exploring themes of grace, morality, and human nature in the American South, written in O'Connor's distinctive voice blending dark humor with spiritual insight.
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Grace arrives as violence: O'Connor's grotesque South is where mortality ambushes the smug into sudden, shattering contact with the holy.
mortality
I been most everything… been an undertaker… seen a man burnt alive oncet — The Misfit cataloguing a life measured by death.
GMHF-RC-013Both the old man and the child stared ahead as if they were awaiting an apparition — then the train appeared, almost silently.
GMHF-RC-068faith-and-doubt
A doctor cut the human heart out of a man's chest and held it in his hand, and he don't know no more…
GMHF-RC-034His mind was dreamy and serene as they walked along toward the healing, the sun rolling away ahead of them.
GMHF-RC-022self-and-identity
In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady.
GMHF-RC-003'Malebranche was right: we are not our own light!' — You could not say, 'My daughter is a philosopher.'
GMHF-RC-115Illuminates
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