Flannery O’Connor’s Unfinished Novel – In Print for the First Time
When O’Connor died of lupus in 1964 she left behind a great body of work, including a third novel, still unfinished, titled ‘Why Do the Heathen Rage?’
When O’Connor died of lupus in 1964 she left behind a great body of work, including a third novel, still unfinished, titled ‘Why Do the Heathen Rage?’
O’Connor, writing to a priest friend, made a comment that revealed her compassion and humility: ‘The thing about Lourdes is that you are not inclined to pray there for yourself …’
Southern sensibility suggests slowing down to get a fair read of novelist Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor was better than most, irrespective of the demons that she fought and which, for the most part, she exorcised.
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