Brad Gooch

First Caroline Gordon and then several of her close friends were deeply impressed by Revelation. (Though her self-confidence might seem inordinate, she always liked to submit her manuscripts to discerning friends for advice.)...

This very unusual book reads half like comic satire and half like a picture of mysticism: as Brad Gooch calls it, the hybrid of a Southern gothic tale with a medieval saint's life.

Brad Gooch says that of all her work this is most marked by the impress of William Faulkner (whose French publisher for Gallimard was at this date working on O'Connor's first novel). Her protagonist...