The Violent Bear It Away (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Flannery O’Connor
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1952
- Genres: Long fiction, Gothic fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Teenagers, South or Southerners, Religion, Alienation, Prophecy or prophets, Arson, Fanaticism, Baptism
- Locales: Tennessee
Places Discussed
Powderhead. Tiny settlement somewhere in rural Tennessee—perhaps east of Nashville—where the boy, Francis Marion Tarwater, has spent nearly all of his fourteen years living with his great-uncle. There they live as if in another century, literally prophets in the wilderness, in a two- story shack surrounded by woods and corn fields, plowing with a mule and selling homemade liquor from their still. After his great-uncle dies, Tarwater gets drunk and burns the cabin and the old man’s body, instead of burying him as he has promised. He then escapes to the...
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