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    <![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]]>
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    <![CDATA[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.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Working my way through chronologically, so I'm on Wise Blood.  Flannery's writing is wonderful, as we all know.  But one thing strikes me--her characters don't seem like they want you to know them.  As opposed to Eudora Welty, who throws her readers immediately into the action, and you feel like you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5775334">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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