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By Farrell O'Gorman

In strange Crossroads, Farrell O'Gorman explains how the unconventional religiosity of either Flannery O'Connor's and Walker Percy's imaginative and prescient made them so necessary as southern fiction writers and social critics. through their non secular and philosophical issues, O'Gorman asserts, those unabashedly Catholic authors bequeathed a postmodern South of purchasing department stores and interstates imbued with as a lot which means as Appomattox or Yoknapatawpha. O'Gorman builds his argument with biographical, historic, literary, and theological facts, studying the writers' paintings via fascinating pairings, corresponding to O'Connor's clever Blood with Percy's The Moviegoer, and O'Connor's an excellent guy is difficult to discover with Percy's Lancelot. An impeccable workout in literary historical past and feedback, atypical Crossroads renders a real knowing of the Catholic sensibility of either O'Connor and Percy and their impact between modern southern writers.

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