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Stephen Orr
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Wise Blood
I’ve got eight hundred words to tell you about Flannery O’Connor. It’d take considerably more, but this is only by way of an introduction. O’Connor was Southern, very Southern (listen to a recording). Born in Savannah, Georgia, she lived a sad (but happy) sort of life, succumbing early (aged 39) to lupus. Sad/happy in the same way her work was strange/beautiful, full of horror, but redemption.
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One Boy Missing
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2014
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Time's Long Ruin
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2009
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6 editions
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The Hands
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2015
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The Cruel City: Is Adelaide the Murder Capital of Australia?
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2011
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Sincerely, Ethel Malley
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2021
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This Excellent Machine
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Shining Like the Sun
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2024
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Dissonance
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2012
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Datsunland
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2017
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Incredible Floridas
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2017
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Well, I arrive at this point where I think most modern storytelling is just rehashing (not because of what's written, probably as good as it ever was,
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“The streets of Croydon are long, washed with light on long Saturday afternoons, smelling of freshly cut grass and jasmine, the air dry, venting over-ripe compost and the third race from Cheltenham. Smelling of candied almonds and Mr Hessian’s chicken shit, piled in heaps in his backyard. Looking like the world had ended, or at least descended into a hibernation of half-sleep, of tea cosies to be crocheted and Advertiser obituaries to be re-read.”
― Time's Long Ruin
― Time's Long Ruin
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“The streets of Croydon are long, washed with light on long Saturday afternoons, smelling of freshly cut grass and jasmine, the air dry, venting over-ripe compost and the third race from Cheltenham. Smelling of candied almonds and Mr Hessian’s chicken shit, piled in heaps in his backyard. Looking like the world had ended, or at least descended into a hibernation of half-sleep, of tea cosies to be crocheted and Advertiser obituaries to be re-read.”
― Time's Long Ruin
― Time's Long Ruin
