{"product_id":"flannery-oconnors-why-do-the-heathen-rage-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-a-work-in-progress-9781587436185","title":"Flannery O'Connor's Why Do the Heathen Rage?: A Behind-The-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Wilson does a great service in resurrecting one of O'Connor's lesser-known works.\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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 \u003ci\u003eWhy Do the Heathen Rage?\u003c\/i\u003e Scholarly experts uncovered and studied the material, deeming it unpublishable. It stayed that way for more than fifty years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUntil now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessica Hooten Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (PhD, Baylor University) is the Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. She is the author or editor of eight books, including \u003ci\u003eReading for the Love of God\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Scandal of Holiness \u003c\/i\u003e(winner of a \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today \u003c\/i\u003e2023 Award of Merit), and \u003ci\u003eGiving the Devil His Due: Demonic Authority in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of a 2018 \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year Award). Hooten Wilson speaks around the world on topics as varied as Russian novelists, Catholic thinkers, and Christian ways of reading.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Brazos Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50611063947538,"sku":"9781587436185","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5c7cd3d8-eb03-4457-8623-794dd6452c5b.jpg?v=1732356150","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/flannery-oconnors-why-do-the-heathen-rage-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-a-work-in-progress-9781587436185","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}