Not in My House
Mark Ford: Flannery O’Connor, 23 July 2009
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor
by Brad Gooch.
Little, Brown, 448 pp., £20, May 2009,978 0 316 00066 6 Show More
by Brad Gooch.
Little, Brown, 448 pp., £20, May 2009,
“... as well as horrific. The Violent Bear It Away is just horrific. Like Hazel Motes, the 14-year-old Francis Marion Tarwater rebels vehemently, but in vain, against his prophethood. The cleansing process again involves extreme acts of violence; Tarwater baptises, then drowns, his young idiot cousin in a lake, and is himself raped by a lavender-shirted pederast ... ”