Passing by the Dragon

by J. Ramsey Michaels

Book Overview

This book attempts a close reading of the fiction of Flannery O'Connor, story by story, with one eye on her use of the Bible, and her view of the Bible in relation to her own work. After introductory chapters on O'Connor's markings in her own Roman Catholic Bible, her book reviews in diocesan newspapers, and her impatience with her wayward readers, Michaels looks first at her two novels, Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away, and then at seventeen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620322234
• ISBN13: 9781620322239
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"