Crime Thriller set in PUGLIA
Flannery O’Connor: The Complete Stories
Location(s): Georgia
Genre(s): Short Stories
Era(s): 1940s
Flannery O’Connor’s short stories are like a mash-up of Patsy Cline’s country music and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. O’Connor’s settings — with the heat, humidity, red clay, drawling dialect, racial tension, and moral righteousness — take you deep into small towns and back woods of central Georgia, and the stories are bizarre, populated with characters of the deep South whose convoluted minds O’Connor grants us entreé to.
Her stories are cunning. They are both alarming and witty as they examine deep truths and hypocrisies of Southern culture — outward appearances that mask judgement and racism; the struggles with Satan and rapture, heaven and hell, class and color; and my favorite aspect, the poignant yet funny inner worlds of of her characters.
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