Flannery O`Connor – Voice of the Peacock Feeley Paperback John Wiley & Sons

Flannery O'ConnorVoice of the Peacock\nAuthor(s): Kathleen Feeley\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823232154, 978-0823232154\nSynopsis\nMy book aims to help readers understand and appreciate O'Connor's novels and short stories. It weaves together her \""place\""-Milledgeville, Georgia; her purpose-to write a good story; and her preoccupations-belief, death, grace, and the devil. I explicate the influences that give depth to her fiction: her understanding and respect for the mores of the South ( including relationships between races), the books she read and marked that reveal links to her own philosophy and literary skill, and her deep religious convictions.\nToday, our encounters with the \""other,\"" the different one, elicit fear and lead to violence from us, as individuals and as nations. For O'Connor, the \""other\"" is a distorted image of God. Her stories show how this distortion calls forth God's !