Flannery O'Connor's Radical Reality.(Book review)

From: Christianity and Literature | Date: June 22, 2007| Author: Baumgaertner, Jill Pelaez | Copyright information

Flannery O'Connor's Radical Reality. Edited by Jan Nordby Gretlund and Karl-Heinz Westarp. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. ISBN 1-57003-601-2. Pp. xvii + 196. $39.95.

Jan Nordby Gretlund and Karl-Heinz Westarp, the editors of this eclectic collection of essays on Flannery O'Connor, have for the past two decades produced Europe's finest explorations of the literature of the American South--with a concentration on the work of Flannery O'Connor, Walker P...

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