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  <title><![CDATA[Flannery O'Connor : Collected Works : Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays &amp; Letters (Library of America)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Flannery O'Connor, a unique and important figure in the Southern literary tradition, was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. This volume, containing her two novels, short stories, essays and letters, is the only complete collection of her works.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1988</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Flannery O'Connor : Collected Works : Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays &amp; Letters (Library of America)</original_title>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Aug 19 11:58:15 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm &quot;taking&quot; the Yale Open Course in The American Novel Since 1945 (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://oyc.yale.edu/english/american-novel-since-1945/" title="http://oyc.yale.edu/english/american-novel-since-1945/">http://oyc.yale.edu/english/american-nov...</a>), and &quot;Wise Blood&quot; is one of the readings. It tells of Hazel Motes, a young man from Tennessee recently returned to the South after several years of fighting overseas. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51037682">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This certainly was a load of a book. I don’t have a problem with the writing which is pretty good or the content of the stories. But I don’t think any of her writing is insightful or intelligent. She knows how to hide her lack of insight. That’s a talent, I guess.<br/><br/>Her style reminds ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55353717">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jul 18 11:50:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love books about small towns and the south. This collection is in my opinion the best book of short stories out there. This collection also contains letters to and from Flannery, which are fascinating. I love this book.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Sep 15 07:33:46 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 17 10:24:24 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have so little time for thoughtful review; instead, I opt for a series of favorite passages from each book; (my apologies to authors everywhere for confounding intent by taking these out of context!) - <br/><br/><em>&quot;There is another reason in the Southern situation that makes for a tendency to...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6237641">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49263915">
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Mar 15 08:19:14 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Flannery O'Connor takes us into the lives of such strange people. Each time I read an O'Connor, I find myself wondering how she does it--how she brings to light the fallibilities, the ugliness, the ignorance, the hopelessness, the stark and harsh reality of such twisted characters.  I come away dist...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49263915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67690349">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 16 21:26:01 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 14 10:53:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another book and another author about whom I feel unqualified to say much, so I will leave it thusly: it has been a good few years since I encountered an author whose work I felt compelled to read again and, very likely, again and again.  I sense an endless amount of ideas I could take from these st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67690349">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68470127">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Aug 22 12:44:46 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 22 12:49:05 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I only read The Violent Bear It Away, but the website wants me to use this &quot;collected&quot; edition to put this on my shelf.<br/><br/>This is pretty obviously a Novel of Ideas, but the story drew me along nonetheless.  I think I might decide I liked it better the more I think about it, so per...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68470127">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 30 17:42:56 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 30 13:18:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been reading her since high school and in college I actually took an entire class on her. Even after the semester class of her I really don't like any of her work. There are some I will give her praise for. Especially View of the Woods and Everything that Rises Must Converge. But having read mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44903913">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48991208">
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Mar 11 20:01:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 20 09:40:40 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, so I only read a few short stories in this. They were all excellent: beautifully drawn characters with sticky conflicts and problems that they would read and address a psychologically consistent manner that nevertheless always seems wrong. While each individual story held my attention with its...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48991208">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43728331">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jan 20 14:16:37 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am having a tough time reading this book and as of yet it is not enjoyable. It did come with relatively high recommendations from close friends and now I worry that I must be culturally illiterate for not getting this book!]]></body>
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    <review id="51850418">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Out of this book, i read A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything that Rises Must Converge.  I like A Good Man is Hard to Find because the plot was interesting and it had a lot of irony.  I didn't like the second story much.]]></body>
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    <review id="25143201">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Feb 02 10:00:27 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The writing style of Flannery O'Connor awakens the reader with its felicity.  Miss O'Connor imagination takes over from there and the ride is a wild one.  Wise Blood, the first work in this collection, is a nightmarish take on the world of southern itenerant preachers.  Hazel Motes' Church without C...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25143201">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77103523">
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  <date_added>Sun Nov 08 10:10:42 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 08 10:11:22 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My comments on these books appear in my review of Brad Gooch's<br/>Flannery here: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://exploringfictions.blogspot.com/2009/09/douglas-messerli-strange-bird-on.html" title="http://exploringfictions.blogspot.com/2009/09/douglas-messerli-strange-bird-on.html">http://exploringfictions.blogspot.com/20...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76229926">
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    <body><![CDATA[O'Connor is one of my literary heroes, and the epitome of Southern modernism.  If anyone could convert me to Christianity, it would probably by Miss Flannery.]]></body>
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    <review id="30375416">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone who's lived in the south.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the ultimate collection of works (I love the letters, too) from the most captivating female writer in American history.  If you don't appreciate her work, you're not reading deep enough.  Flannery's writing is so thick with subtext, so much symbolism, yet so oddly relatable, it's amazing tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30375416">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11370987">
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  <date_added>Mon Dec 31 22:49:36 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[By far my favorite short story writer.  Coming from a staunch Christian background, O'Connor creates these brilliant characters, juxtaposing the blind-faithed with the blind hearted.  Forget identifying the protagonist and the antagonist, there's good and grotesque in everyone.  But I must wonder......<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11370987">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1888553">
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