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...Ultimate Things (BOOKS)-A review of a collection of short stories that belong among the finest examples of American gothic. But it becomes the story of the late Flannery O'Connor, who had the luck, the stubbornness, and the mystical quality of the Irish...
Mary Flannery O'Connor had the luck of the Irish, or seemed to. At 25 she was pretty, witty, and had published fiction in some of the best little magazines. At 26, she came down with an incurable form of lupus erythematosus, a correlative of arthritis that softened the bones in her legs and lower face, eventually reduced her to crutches and permanent debility. But Author O'Connor had the stubbornness of the Irish, too. During the next 13 years, passed mostly in seclusion on her mother's farm near Milledgeville, Ga., she wrote unremittingly. Before...
EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE by Flannery O'Connor. 268 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...Back. A lifelong Catholic, Author O'Connor wrote exclusively of ultimate things: sin and salvation, death and rebirth, the old Adam and the new life. But she was a poet of region as well as religion, and in this new collection of nine stories, which belong among the finest examples of American Gothic, she celebrates in Southern guises he old violent dialogue of the demonic and the divine...
There are several lively thrillers this spring, most already destined for the movies. Among the most beguiling are The French Doll, by Vincent O'Connor, which has a CIA hero and a racy Paris setting; The Interrogators, by Allan Prior, in which two doughty Scotland Yard men are hampered in their pursuit by their heavy drinking; Midnight Plus One, by Gavin Lyall, a kaleidoscopic Bondian yarn; and Cunning as a Fox, by Kyle Hunt (a pseudonym of John Creasey), in which the sleuth is a psychiatrist hired by the wanted teen-ager's frantic parents...