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Flannery O'Connor's Why Do the Heathen Rage?
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress
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eBook - ePub
Flannery O'Connor's Why Do the Heathen Rage?
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress
About this book
Christianity Today 2025 Award of Merit (Culture, Poetry, and the Arts)
"Wilson does a great service in resurrecting one of O'Connor's lesser-known works."--Publishers Weekly
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 unpublishable. It stayed that way for more than fifty years.
Until now.
For the past ten-plus years, award-winning author Jessica Hooten Wilson has explored the 378 pages of typed and handwritten material 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 introduces O'Connor's novel to the public for the first time and imagines themes and directions O'Connor's work might have taken. Including 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.
"Wilson does a great service in resurrecting one of O'Connor's lesser-known works."--Publishers Weekly
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 unpublishable. It stayed that way for more than fifty years.
Until now.
For the past ten-plus years, award-winning author Jessica Hooten Wilson has explored the 378 pages of typed and handwritten material 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 introduces O'Connor's novel to the public for the first time and imagines themes and directions O'Connor's work might have taken. Including 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Why Do the Heathen Rage? The Porch Scene
- Koinonia
- Sequel to âThe Enduring Chillâ
- Why Do the Heathen Rage? Walterâs Last Will and Testament
- Why Do the Heathen Rage? Baptism
- Why Do the Heathen Rage? Walter/Asburyâs Childhood
- Why Do the Heathen Rage? Walter Recites the Ten Commandments
- Epistolary Blackface
- Why Do the Heathen Rage? The Black Double
- Maryat Lee and Oona Gibbs
- Documenting âRealâ Life
- Why Do the Heathen Rage? Photo Journal
- The Revolting Conversion
- Why Do the Heathen Rage? Do Not Come, Oona Gibbs!
- Introducing the Girl
- Why Do the Heathen Rage? The Girl
- Who Is Oona Gibbs? Mother, Daughter, Aunt, Cousin, or Lover
- Why Do the Heathen Rage? Walterâs Aunt
- Burning Crosses
- The Violent Bear It Away: The Burnt Cross
- Why Do the Heathen Rage? One Potential Ending
- The Other Half of the Story
- Afterword: Steve Prince, One Fish Studio
- About the Illustrator
- Notes
- Back Cover