I recently read this book too. That shit is bleak, even by O'Connor's standards.

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>>8276121
How does it compare with her short stories? I've only read a few but I enjoyed them

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If you have read her short stories you might have read some of the chapters. She adapted the novel from her short stories, I think

>>8276125
O'Connor really is a better short story writer than a novelist, but her novels are good. I like The Violent Bear It Away.

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It was my understanding that there were like 4 stories she had written that she turned into Wise Blood.

>>8276121
It's not that it's a depressing story, it's that it was a genuinely funny, at least to me, book with some serious themes for the first 80%, and then he literally murders that guy, blinds himself, and dies a slow, painful death while unknowingly making that old lady die alone in love with him . Also, the way Enoch's story ends is a super downer too, in a more subtle way. This is my first O'Conner story, are the rest like this?