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A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

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ISBN13: 9780156364652
ISBN10: 0156364654
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The collection that established O'Connor's reputation as one of the american masters of the short story. The volume contains the celebrated title story, a tale of the murderous fugitive "The Misfit," as well as "The Displaced Person" and eight other stories.

Review:

"O'Connor's works, like Maupassant's, are characterized by precision, density, and an almost alarming circumscription....In these stories the rural South is, for the first time, viewed by a writer whose orthodoxy matches her talent. The results are revolutionary." The New York Times Book Review

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"Much savagery, compassion, farce, art, and truth have gone into these stories. O'Connor's characters are wholeheartedly horrible, and almost better than life. I find it hard to think of a funnier or more frightening writer." Robert Lowell, author of Life Studies
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About the Author

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) is considered one of the foremost short story writers in American literature. An anomaly among post-World War II authors — a Roman Catholic from the Bible-belt South whose stated purpose was to reveal the mystery of God's grace in everyday life — she received several awards for her writing, which also includes novels, criticism, and letters.
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Marilyn Stachenfeld, July 29, 2008 (view all comments by Marilyn Stachenfeld)
Flannery O'Connor writes like no one else. Until I read a collection of her letters and got some understanding of her judgment of her characters--she judges them on a scale of spiritual honesty--I was puzzled by her writing. Now I am just thrilled by the mind that could create such unconventional (mostly Southern) people and put them through so many spins of the wheel. I can't put down any one of her stories in the middle.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780156364652
Author:
O'Connor, Flannery
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Location:
San Diego, Calif.
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Social life and customs
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Novels and novellas
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
Southern states
Subject:
Southern States Social life and customs Fiction.
Subject:
General Language Arts & Disciplines
Subject:
Short stories
Subject:
Southern States Social life and customs.
Copyright:
1955
Edition Number:
1st Harvest/HBJ ed.
Edition Description:
Harvest/HBJ
Series:
Harvest/HBJ Book
Series Volume:
46
Publication Date:
September 1977
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
276
Dimensions:
7.96x5.40x.65 in. .55 lbs.
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