Letters of Flannery O'Connor: The Habit of Being Randall Goodgame the Sound of Sirens

the Sound of Sirens

herself returning home with a broken heart and turbulent past

the great man must battle evil on a new world—Perelandra—when it is invaded by the Devil’s agent

and all other people of good will

which continues with Perelandra and That Hideous Strength

Letters of Flannery O'Connor: The Habit of Being Randall Goodgame the Sound of SirensTo compare her with the great letter writers in our language may seem presumptuous and would have elicited from her one of her famous steely glances, but Byron, Keats, Lawrence, Wilde and Joyce come irresistibly to mind: correspondence that gleams with consciousness. (The New York Times) These hundreds of letters give O'Connor's tough, funny, careful personality to us more distinctly and movingly than any biography probably would Remarkable and