The Terrible Speed of Mercy
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The Terrible Speed of Mercy

A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor

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The Terrible Speed of Mercy

A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor

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"Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics."

—Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor's work has been described as "profane, blasphemous, and outrageous." Her stories are peopled by a sordid caravan of murderers and thieves, prostitutes and bigots whose lives are punctuated by horror and sudden violence. But perhaps the most shocking thing about Flannery O'Connor's fiction is the fact that it is shaped by a thoroughly Christian vision. If the world she depicts is dark and terrifying, it is also the place where grace makes itself known. Her world—our world—is the stage whereon the divine comedy plays out; the freakishness and violence in O'Connor's stories, so often mistaken for a kind of misanthropy or even nihilism, turn out to be a call to mercy.

In this biography, Jonathan Rogers gets at the heart of O'Connor's work. He follows the roots of her fervent Catholicism and traces the outlines of a life marked by illness and suffering, but ultimately defined by an irrepressible joy and even hilarity. In her stories, and in her life story, Flannery O'Connor extends a hand in the dark, warning and reassuring us of the terrible speed of mercy.

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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Year
2012
ISBN
9781595554185
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religious Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Publisher’s Note
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. The Girl Who Fought with Angels: Savannah, 1925–1939
  9. 2. “Mostly She Talked Flannery”: Milledgeville, 1939–1945
  10. 3. “I Began to Read Everything at Once”: Iowa, 1945–1948
  11. 4. “The Peculiarity . . . of the Experience I Write from”: New York and Connecticut, 1948–1950
  12. 5. “Sickness Is a Place”: 1951–1952
  13. 6. Wise Blood: 1952
  14. 7. “I Seem to Attract the Lunatic Fringe”: 1953–1954
  15. 8. A Good Man Is Hard to Find: 1954–1955
  16. 9. “The Accurate Naming of the Things of God”: 1955–1956
  17. 10. “The Society I Feed on”: 1957–1958
  18. 11. The Violent Bear It Away: 1959–1960
  19. 12. “Everything That Rises Must Converge”: 1961–1963
  20. 13. “Beyond the Regions of Thunder”: 1964
  21. Notes
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. About the Author
  24. Index