American Gargoyles

"This is a book that will introduce readers to O’Connor in essential ways; and for even the most advanced scholar of O’Connor, there is much here that is instantly and permanently rewarding."—Arthur F. Kinney, author of Flannery O’Connor’s Library: Resources of Being

"O’Connor’s freaks jostle with Rabelais and Chaucer, the danse macabre, and the Christianized Saturnalia of the ‘Laughter of December’ in Di Renzo’s excellent tour-guide to ‘that strange passageway between the sacred and the profane.’"       —Choice