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Flannery O'Connor: Collected Worksby Flannery O'Connor
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Flannery O'Connor (1925-64) spent most of her life in rural Georgia, and though she never quite fit into that world — her family was Catholic in a very Protestant region, and she was highly educated, unmarried, and some would say surly, in a world in which women were expected to be ladies — she created some of the most lasting portraits of the South, its spiritual struggles, and its grotesque humor. O'Connor suffered quite severely from lupus for much of her life and died at the age of 39, but her career profoundly influenced the development not simply of the literature of the South but of American fiction more generally. She published two novels, Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear it Away (1960) but is most known for her short fiction, published in collections including A Good Man is Hard to Find (1955) and the posthumous Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965).
Synopsis:Flannery O'Connor, a unique and important figure in the Southern literary tradition, was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. This volume, containing her two novels, short stories, essays and letters, is the only complete collection of her works.
About the AuthorFlannery O’Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, on March 25, 1925, and was raised as a devout Roman Catholic in Milledgeville, Georgia. Upon graduation from the Graduate Program of the Women’s College of Georgia, O’Connor attended the writing program at the State University of Iowa, receiving her MFA in 1947. Among the strongest influences on O’Connor’s work were the writings of William Faulkner and Nathanael West, from whom she derived her conception of the grotesque in literature. Following the publication of numerous short stories in literary journals, O’Connor’s first novel, Wise Blood, was published in 1952. Suffering from a hereditary rheumatic ailment, she spent the next twelve years writing at the family farm in Milledgeville under the care of her mother, Regina, and the strictest medical super vision. A Good Man is Hard to Find, a collection of short stories, was published in 1955, and another novel, The Violent Bear It Away, appeared in 1960. Though seriously ill, O’Connor made an extensive series of lecture tours, received an honorary degree from Smith College in 1963, and that same year, won first prize in the annual O’Henry short story awards (as she had previously done in 1956). After her death on August 3, 1964, another collection of short stories, Everything That Rises Must Converge, was published (1965), as well as a volume of unpublished lectures and essays and various critical articles, Mystery and Manners (1969). Table of ContentsCollected Works Wise Blood A Good Man Is Hard to Find The Violent Bear It Away Everything That Rises Must Converge Stories and Occasional Prose Letters
Index of Stories and Occasional Prose Chronology Note on the Texts Notes
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