Flannery O'Connor's Why Do the Heathen Rage?: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress - Hardcover

Wilson, Jessica Hooten

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1587436183 ISBN 13: 9781587436185

Verlag: Brazos Press, Div of Baker Publishing Group, 2024

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In this work of literary excavation, an award-winning author transcribes, compiles, and organizes a final, unfinished novel by celebrated American fiction writer Flannery O'Connor. This book introduces O'Connor's final work to the public for the first time and imagines themes and directions the novel might have taken.

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Jessica Hooten Wilson (PhD, Baylor University) is the Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. She is the author or editor of eight books, including Reading for the Love of God, The Scandal of Holiness (winner of a Christianity Today 2023 Award of Merit), and Giving the Devil His Due: Demonic Authority in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky (winner of a 2018 Christianity Today Book of the Year Award). Hooten Wilson speaks around the world on topics as varied as Russian novelists, Catholic thinkers, and Christian ways of reading.

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For the past ten-plus years, Jessica Hooten Wilson has explored the 378 pages of typed and handwritten material of Flannery O'Connor's final unfinished novel, Why Do the Heathen Rage?--transcribing pages, organizing them into scenes, and compiling everything to provide a glimpse into what O'Connor might have planned to publish.

This groundbreaking book introduces O'Connor's novel to the public for the first time. Hooten Wilson unveils scenes that are both funny and thought-provoking, ultimately revealing that we have much to learn from what O'Connor left behind.

"Hooten Wilson has achieved a miracle with Flannery O'Connor's unfinished novel, Why Do the Heathen Rage?, resurrecting the fragmented bones of this freakish Lazarus text and making it walk about on the page to the amazement of the literary world. Why has nobody attempted this before? I suppose because nobody's been brave enough until now. Hooten Wilson is not afraid. In that way, she's much like O'Connor herself, a Southern writer with as much heart as brain. I stand in awe. Heathens all over will be raging to read this resurrected gift of a book. Maybe some Christians will too. Miracles do happen."
--Harrison Scott Key, author of How to Stay Married and The World's Largest Man

"In encountering Flannery O'Connor's words, I felt as if I were being transported in time before my birth while understanding clearly that the conditions that bore O'Connor, and her writing, offer an even clearer picture of who we were, who we are, who we are becoming, and dare I say, who we are constructed or imagined to be."
--Steve Prince (from the afterword)

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Brazos Press, Div of Baker Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1587436183
• ISBN 13: 9781587436185
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Zeichner: Prince Steve
• Anzahl der Seiten: 191
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