Somehow I didn’t really know this novel existed until recent years. I knew a book called The Violent Bear It Away existed and I knew Flannery O’Connor had written it, but I figured it was a collection of short stories, and having read all her short stories, I kind of figured I had read this already. She wrote this novel and one other Wise Blood and I honestly feel like those two novels couldn’t be much different from one another. In Wise Blood I feel the absolute distillation […]