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Just finished [url= http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Stories-Flannery-OConnor/dp/0374515360 ][i]The Complete Stories[/i][/url] - not read her before, although I've been meaning to for a while.
Tough, brilliant prose - and often genuinely unsettling. Holy fug, were she still around, she could probably out-gun Cormac McCarthy.
She's also been immortalised in a song by my favourite grunge band:
Youtube blocked on this computer, MrA. 😕
Who is it?
edit: seems she's been quite an influence on American music - for one thing, I now understand what Sufjan Stevens is on about in [i]A good man is hard to find[/i].
I read "A good man is hard to find" a few years ago. Excellent. Thanks for the reminder, I was looking for something to read.
Maybe it's better that your ears are spared, but it's Killdozer's song "Lupus", which is, er, sort of a celebration of her life and work:
http://ithinkihatemy45s.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/killdozer-yow.html
Wise Blood is one of my favourite books and the film with Brad Dourif is a John Houston classic.
Also immortalised in song by Gang of Four
(A Man with a Good Car)
Maybe it's better that your ears are spared
Ooh, me delicate ears... Ta - interesting how these things, uhh, percolate thru kulture.
Lupus: she was certainly a tough sort. Probably explains the unflinching stories - almost too much to stomach in some cases ([i]The lame shall enter first[/i]), but generally a supreme blend of sharp writing, wry humour and astute observation.
Wise Blood
I'm definitely lining that up.
Wise Blood is one of my favourite books
Just finished it - brilliant book. As hilarious as it is disturbing.
Enoch's encounter with the gorilla is still making me laugh.