WISE BLOOD (232 pp.) Flannery O'ConnorHarcourt, Brace ($3).
THE FAMILY (379 pp.)Caroline Ivey William Sloane ($3.50).
Seasons come, seasons go. but Southern novels just keep rolling along. Here are two new ones, both by women, and as different in subject and style as two books could be. Flannery O'Connor's arty Wise Blood flashes with fitful satire; Caroline Ivey's The Family gleams with kitchen coziness. One is too far from humanity, the other a bit too close to it.
The hero of Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood, a red-neck fanatic who plans to create "the Church...
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