Review: The Violent Bear It Away

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I’ll come clean and say that I haven’t been reading any books for my local men’s book club over the past few months, but I could not stop myself when they chose a Flannery O’Connor novel, THE VIOLENT BEAR IT AWAY. There’s so much that has been said about this novel already, but I can’t help, but leave some notes for it here.

A revered classic of Southern Gothic, O’Connor’s novel of bracing satire, prophetic rantings, and whisperings of demons is a rough journey of a novel, not for the faint...