hannigraham:“There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is
hannigraham:“There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don’t have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we’ve got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech” -Flannery O'ConnorN O V E L S / N O V E L L A SAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerBeloved by Toni MorrisonA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleGod’s Little Acre by Erskine CaldwellGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersLight in August by William FaulknerLook Homeward, Angel by Thomas WolfeThe Neon Bible by John Kennedy TooleThe Night of the Hunter by Davis GrubbThe Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora WeltyOther Voices, Other Rooms by Truman CapoteOuter Dark by Cormac McCarthySanctuary by William FaulknerSartoris by William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeTobacco Road by Erskine CaldwellThe Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'ConnorWise Blood by Flannery O'ConnorS H O R T S T O R I E SA Good Man Is Hard to Find By Flannery O'ConnorA Rose for Emily by William FaulknerBarn Burning by William FaulknerThe Flowers by Alice WalkerKneel to the Rising Sun by Erskine CaldwellMountain Victory by William FaulknerThe Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark TwainWhy I Live at the P.O. by Eudora WeltyP O E T R YSouthern Gothic by Rickey LaurentiisPlaying Dead by Andrew HudginsI’m on page 70 -- source link
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