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3 by Flannery O'Connor: The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge / Wise Blood

by Flannery O'Connor · 1962

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The quintessential Southern writer, O'Connor wrote fiercely comic, powerful fiction. This anthology includes the masterpieces Wise Blood. The Violent Bear it Away, and Everything that Rises Must Converge.

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thisChristian fictionChristian fictionMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
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gothicgothicMore like thisLess of this
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American SouthAmerican SouthMore like thisLess of thiscollegecollegeMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
long · 496 pages
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