Lamar L. Nisly. Wingless Chickens, Bayou Catholics, and Pilgrim
Wayfarers: Constructions of Audience and Tone in O'Connor,
Gautreaux, and Percy. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2011. 254
pp. ISBN 978-0-88146-214-2.  Flannery O’Connor, Tim Gautreaux,
and Walker Percy are all southern Catholic writers, but each
uses distinct tones in addressing their audiences. In Wingless
Chickens, Bayou Catholics, and Pilgrim Wayfarers: Constructions
of Audience and Tone in O’Connor, Gautreaux, and Percy, L. Lamar
Nisly explores the various differences in these writers’
fiction. O’Connor, Gautreaux, and Percy exhibit understandings
of their audiences shaped by their local experiences of
Catholicism as well as the transformations of the Second Vatican
Council.  O’Connor, the subject of an extensive body of literary
criticism, is known for her use of the grotesque to shock
readers. Nisly provides an analysis of O’Connor’s biography as
well as her own comments on audience in interviews and various
correspondences to illuminate O