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Title: storytelling at its very best
Review: I never get tired of reading O'Connor. Vivid, wry, tragic and shocking, these stories are keenly observed revelations of human foibles and spiritual failure. O'Connor, a devout Christian, was especially good at evoking simultaneous cruelty and comedy, e.g.,when the Misfit in "A Good Man is Hard to Find," looks at the dead body of the manipulative grandmother and says, "She would have been a good woman if there had been someone to shoot her every day of her life." In the hands of a lesser writer, O'Connor's sort of violence might have come across as heavy-handed and contrived, rather than thought-provoking. Too bad she had to leave us so soon!
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