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O'Connor's language is so crass at times that I cringe! However, she wrote for an audience she perceived to be hard of hearing. Despite the rough language, each story is delicately and skillfully woven. A quick warning: O'Connor's stories induce self-examination (that is, if you are listening carefully). For O'Connor, "revelation" consists in a truer knowledge about oneself; in that sense, her stories aim to be revelatory. O'Connor especially targets the tangled web known as self-righteousness, for which a story a day from this volume is not a bad cure.