During O'Connor's last years, she became increasingly fascinated by the writings of early monastic Christians. Giannone explores how this fascination informs her fiction.
2001 Choice Outstanding Academic Title A compelling study of O'Connor's fiction as illuminated by the teaching of the desert monastics. "Lord, I'm glad I'm a hermit novelist," Flannery O'Connor wrote to a friend in 1957. Sequestered...