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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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References
- ↑ Richard Giannone, Flannery O'Connor, hermit novelist (University of Illinois Press, 2000)
- ↑ "The Barber from the Stories of Flannery O'Connor".
- ↑ https://literarytable.com/2012/03/08/you-ever-tried-to-argue-with-a-barber/
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