| Author Quoted | Flannnery O'Connor |
| Title Quoted | Everything That Rises Must Converge |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1965/04/23 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1965 |
| Quotation | Then yesterday Flannery O'Connor's new book [Everything That Rises Must Converge, 1965] arrived and I am already well into it, grueling and powerful! A relentlessly perfect writer, full of tragedy and irony. But what a writer! And she knows every aspect of the American meanness, and violence, and frustration. And the Southern struggle of will against inertia. |
| Quotation Source | Dancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 5, 1963-1965.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1997, p. 233 |
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