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Review copy first edition, first state book with � tyring� on page 125; first-issue dust jacket with reviews for Wise Blood on rear panel of O'Connor's classic work. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with the review slip attached to the front free endpaper. These ten stories� "ranked by many readers as some of O� Connor� s strongest work and consistently lauded as masterfully crafted classics of modern American short fiction� "take place in a rural South � that somehow hovers outside of time, where both the New Deal and the New Testament feel like recent history. It� s soaked in violence and humor, in sin and in God� � a land haunted by Christ� � [Many people] are in turn haunted by O� Connor. Her doctrinally strict, mordantly funny stories and novels are as close to perfect as writing gets� (New York Times).

A collection of short stories featuring O'Connor's sharp observations on the South and its eccentric inhabitants.