Flannery O'Connor
Author
Language
English
Description
An essential collection of classic stories that established Flannery O'Connor's reputation as an American master of fiction—now with a new introduction by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff In 1955, with the title story and others in this critical edition, Flannery O'Connor firmly laid claim to her place as one of the most original and provocative writers of her generation. Steeped in a Southern Gothic tradition...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
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Description
Introduction / by Robert Giroux -- The geranium -- The barber -- Wildcat -- The crop -- The turkey -- The train -- The peeler -- The heart of the park -- A stroke of good fortune -- Enoch and the gorilla -- A good man is hard to find -- A late encounter with the enemy -- The life you save may be your own -- The river -- A circle in the fire -- The displaced person -- A temple of the Holy Ghost -- The artificial nigger -- Good country people -- You...
3) Wise blood
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher named Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter. In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own non-faith, and to prove himself a greater cynic than Hawks, Hazel
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Series
Library of America ; 39
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Contents: Wise Blood - A Good Man is Hard to Find - The Violent Bear It Away - Everything That Rises Must Converge - Stories and Occasional Prose - Letters.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Written between 1946 and 1947 while O'Connor was a student far from home at the University of Iowa, A prayer journal is a rare portal into the interior life of the great writer. Not only does it map O'Connor's singular relationship with the divine, but it shows how entwined her literary desire was with her yearning for God"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Convergent Books, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A literary treasure of over one hundred unpublished letters from National Book Award-winning author Flannery O'Connor and her circle of extraordinary friends. Flannery O'Connor is a master of twentieth-century American fiction, joining, since her untimely death in 1964, the likes of Hawthorne, Hemingway, and Faulkner. Those familiar with her work know that her powerful ethical vision was rooted in a quiet, devout faith and informed all she wrote and...
Author
Series
Signet books ; E9792
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
English
Description
Wise Blood evokes a terrifying world as it reveals a weird relationship between a sluttish young girl, a conniving widow, and a young man who deliberately blinds himself.
A Good Man is Hard to Find is a collection of tales about healing preachers, Godless spectators, Civil War veterans, and a never to be forgotten Bible salesman who steals a girl's wooden leg.
The Violent Bear It Away tells of a strangely decadent family - three generations of men...
