false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170355801m/48468.jpg 48468 6 <div>First published in 1955, <i>The Violent Bear It Away</i> is now a landmark in American literature. It is a dark and absorbing example of the Gothic sensibility and bracing satirical voice that are united in Flannery O'Conner's work. In it, the orphaned Francis Marion Tarwater and his cousins, the schoolteacher Rayber, defy the prophecy of their dead uncle--that Tarwater will become a prophet and will baptize Rayber's young son, Bishop. A series of struggles ensues: Tarwater fights an internal battle against his innate faith and the voices calling him to be a prophet while Rayber tries to draw Tarwater into a more "reasonable" modern world. Both wrestle with the legacy of their dead relatives and lay claim to Bishop's soul.<br><br>O'Connor observes all this with an astonishing combination of irony and compassion, humor and pathos. The result is a novel whose range and depth reveal a brilliant and innovative writers acutely alert to where the sacred lives and to where it does not.<br></div> 1510479 1 1 1960 The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel total:1245|5:20|4:17|3:16|2:1|1:0| 1245 5138 1795 91 0 2 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 16:45:47 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 16:45:47 -0800 2009 collected short stories and Wise Blood, her first novel. None of her other work prepared me for this, her cynical, paranoid mind fuck of a novel. Her prose, as always, is clear and excellent, and she once again explores faith and its absence in a way that allows ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 13 20:11:24 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 20:17:34 -0700 2009
Well, a hell of a lot more happens ...more...]]> 4 5 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 18:57:15 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 20:19:37 -0700 2008
So, spoiler alert I guess...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jan 15 18:22:06 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 18:23:43 -0800 2009 5 1 false false Mon Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 16:07:29 -0800 2008 Sun Sep 27 06:30:31 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 08:26:29 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 08:03:09 -0800 2009
During his adolescent expectancy of bombastic biblical beckoning and reckoning, young Tarwater veers wildly between...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 03 00:23:03 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 03 00:23:03 -0700 2007 Wise Blood and found myself let down by (and making premature assumptions about) O'Connor-the-novelist, I didn't realize that her two longer works were separated by eight years. On the Flannery O'Connor timeline, that's practically a lifetime. In The Violent Bear It Away, O'Connor treats...more...]]> 4 3 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 13 20:51:07 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 29 09:12:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 20:21:56 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 13:25:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 13:55:03 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 08:44:57 -0700 2009
This book is about religon and destruction. The main character, a 15 year old boy named Marion, has been raised in the 1930's in extremely rural Tennesee ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 09:57:24 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 10:56:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 18:58:47 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 19:42:15 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 13:40:34 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 13:52:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 14:12:43 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 14:12:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 7 false false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 06 16:55:49 -0800 2009 Mon Oct 26 16:44:43 -0700 2009 The Violent Bear It Away A Novel by Flannery O'Connor. On the other hand, I can't say I "didn't like" it either. Maybe what I can say is that this book "moved" me, but in a negative way. Maybe...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 27 07:56:12 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 16 16:35:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 true true Tue Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 18:22:47 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 21:48:04 -0700 2008 1 She was raised as a Catholic and her fiction is filled with an unquestionable inclination towards a belief in the existence of God--even if religion has created a repulsion so deep that it nearly becomes a denial. This short novel seems ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jun 24 06:14:36 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 09:03:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 02 08:42:27 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 15:03:35 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 11:44:17 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 09:03:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=48468