FTP, name this second and final novel by Flannery O'Connor.
In one scene in this novel, the protagonist hitches a ride with a flue salesman, who claims that love is the secret to good salesmanship, but admits that he thanks God when his customers' family members die so he doesn't have to remember their names. Near the end, the protagonist hitches a ride again, this time with a man in a lavender shirt in a lavender car, who drugs and rapes him. An unseen character in this novel is Bernice, the social worker ex-wife of a character who wears a hearing aid due to damage suffered when Mason shot at him. The protagonist spends the novel trying to avoid baptizing Bishop, the mentally challenged son of his uncle, Rayber, after failing to bury his great-uncle. The short story "You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead" was originally the first chapter of this book, which concerns Francis Tarwater and his attempts to resist becoming a prophet. FTP, name this second and final novel by Flannery O'Connor.
In one scene in this novel, the protagonist hitches a ride with a flue salesman, who claims that love is the secret to good salesmanship, but admits that he thanks God when his customers' family members die so he doesn't have to remember their names.
{The Violent Bear it Away}