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Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage? A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress Jessica Hooten Wilson When celebrated American novelist and short story writer Flannery O’Connor died at the age of thirty-nine in 1964, she left behind an unfinished third novel titled Why Do the Heathen Rage? Scholarly experts uncovered and studied the material, deeming it unpublish- able. It stayed that way for forty years. Until now. For the past ten-plus years, award-winning author Jessica Hooten Wilson has explored the 378 pages of typed and handwritten mate- rial of the novel—transcribing pages, organizing them into scenes, and compiling everything to provide a glimpse into what O’Connor might have planned to publish. This book is the result of Hooten Wilson’s work. In it, she intro- duces O’Connor’s novel to the public for the first time and imagines themes and directions O’Connor’s work might have taken. Includ- ing illustrations and an afterword from noted artist Steve Prince (One Fish Studio), the book unveils scenes that are both funny and thought-provoking, ultimately revealing that we have much to learn from what O’Connor left behind. This work will be of keen interest to fans of Flannery O’Connor’s fiction, students in classical schools and Great Books programs, and all Christians who love great literature. “What a delight that there’s a new Flannery O’Connor manuscript in the world, courtesy of Jessica Hooten Wilson, who has performed a true labor of love here, for which the literary world will be wildly grateful.” —GEORGE SAUNDERS, New York Times bestselling author of Man Booker Prize winner Lincoln in the Bardo
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Jessica Hooten Wilson (PhD, Baylor University) is the Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University. She is the author or editor of eight books, including Reading for the Love of God , The Scandal of Holiness (winner of a Christianity Today 2023 Award of Merit), and Giving the Devil His Due: Demonic Authority in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky (winner of a 2018 Christianity Today Book of the Year Award). Wilson speaks around the world on topics as varied as Russian novelists, Catholic thinkers, and Christian ways of reading. JANUARY 2024 • 192 pp. • cloth • $24.99 • 9781587436185
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READING FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 9781587435256 • $24.99c
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