Books by Richard Giannone

This study interprets Flannery O'Connor's fiction on its own terms. By stepping back from prevailing controversies, the author turns to the short stories and novels themselves and forms an impression of them while seeking the answers to such questions as they necessarily suggest themselves.

A raw, piercing, and courageously open self-scrutiny that merges the author's distinct worlds of being gay, Catholic, and a devoted son and brother to his dying mother and sister.

Examining the complex thematic and structural forms that music acquires in Cather's narratives, this book uses this musical approach as a way of seeing into the author's artistic sensibility, the evolution of her art, and her total achievement.