SIGNET CLASSICS THREE BY FLANNERY OCONNOR

“I don’t deserve any credit for turning the other cheek,” quipped Flannery O’Connor once, “as my tongue is always in it.” Such a knack for irony shapes much of the powerful comic fiction that has won her unanimous critical acclaim. No writer has captured Southern rhythm and humor as well as she has. Here in a single volume are three of the great works that established her reputation as one of America’s most provocative writers.

Wise Blood
Her first novel evokes a terrifying world inhabited by a sensual girl, a conniving widow, and a young man who deliberately blinds himself.

The Violent Bear It Away
A strange group of religious fanatics is driven to prove God’s love through stunning acts of violence.

Everything That Rises Must Converge
This collection of nine short stories depicts eroding family relationships, visions of death, and divine revelations.

“She was not just the best ‘woman writer’ of this time and place; she expressed something about America, called ‘the South,’ with that transcendent gift for expressing the real spirit of a culture that is conveyed by those writers.…She was a genius.”
—Alfred Kazin, The New York Times Book Review