Harper's Magazine, September 1st, 1996
By Flannery O'Connor. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 243 pages. $10.
In the last few years, far off the track of New York editors' lunches, a phenomenal growth category for fiction has emerged: the Christian thriller. It is a genre that shares not only an acceptance of the magic (the literal magic, in many cases) of faith but also a hard belief in some other significant, late-twentieth-century American myths. Frank Peretti's The Oath, the monster of them all, has sold almost half a million in hardcover over the past year; like at least one other of his books, it features a full-fledged dragon s...
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