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• W917382442 abstract "Ann Napolitano. A Good Hard Look. New York: The Penguin Press, 201 1. 327 pp. $25.95 cloth.Defying Flannery O'Connor's assertion that . . lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy (5 July 1958, HB 290-91), Ann Napolitano has created an ill-conceived, poorly written fantasy that centers on Milledgeville and the last five years of Flannery O'Connor's life. Napolitano gives us an O'Connor who becomes infatuated with married man and who loses her faith following series of tragedies, in one of which she is directly involved. Indeed, she may be at least indirectly responsible for the death of the married man's child, who, in an almost comically ghoulish and completely incredible scene, is trampled to death by one of O'Connor's peacocks. Plot summary cannot begin to capture the absurdity of this narrative.Certainly if one undertakes to write fictional representation of real person, particularly respected Catholic writer who spent the last thirteen years of her life in storied southern town, one is obligated to do one's homework. In the case of O'Connor, there are ample resources now available: the writer's essays, lectures, and letters; several biographies; multiple critical studies; at least one live interview; and films of her work (of varying quality, to be sure)-to say nothing of the actual existence of Milledgeville and Andalusia as historic and literary landmarks. These resources to the contrary notwithstanding, the Flannery O'Connor who emerges in A Good Hard Look bears little resemblance to the writer herself. In the first place, she is far more sociable and far better acclimated to Milledgeville friends and social life than her real-life counterpart ever was. She has no trouble mingling with guests at wedding reception and engaging in coy repartee, when, in actuality, O'Connor was shy, introverted, and not at all voluble with mere acquaintances. Furthermore, Napolitano asserts that the person who actually failed her driver's test at least once and who, to the best of my knowledge, was never seen driving alone in Milledgeville, is in love with driving: [S]he enjoyed being behind the wheel of the car, and she enjoyed rolling the car window down and feeling the wind spray her face. She enjoyed leaving Andalusia in an unfamiliar vehicle, with unfamiliar company (64). Nothing, in my view, could be further from the truth about Flannery O'Connor.Moreover, Regina O'Connor, in contrast to the laconic, practical parent so well captured in O'Connor's letters and in accounts of the locals, is an affable, neighborly, and wise mother who senses her daughter's emotional involvement with the married Melvin and following the tragedies (and, it should be noticed, without one demurral) insists on her daughter's return to Sacred Heart and the Catholicism she appears to have abandoned. Has it come to this?Milledgeville itself is so vaguely presented that the reader feels no sense of the actual place, and that is shame, for this historic is fertile ground for fiction. The Cline House, where O'Connor lived during her high school and college days, is in the Liberty Street neighborhood, Milledgeville's most picturesque. Napolitano's novel would have added dimension and far more substance if the author had used details evoking Milledgeville's rich and colorful history. Napolitano's narrative might just as well take place in Charlotte, North Carolina, or Elberton, Georgia. Furthermore, if the reader knows Milledgeville at all, she or he experiences frequent confusion over directions and the locations of important places. The Presbyterian Church, in reality only few blocks from Sacred Heart Catholic Church, is described as being across town (66). Andalusia, north of Milledgeville, is located on the way to Macon, west of the town. Central State Hospital, where the novel's central character ends up after mental breakdown, is only vaguely described (Certainly it is more than a cement rectangle on neglected piece of land [83]. …" @default.
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