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Flannery O'Connor Collection
Flannery O'Connor, who lived a brief life, rose to prominence as one of the most recognisable American authors of the 20th century. O'Connor, a Georgia native by birth and a Roman Catholic, illustrates the limits of human knowledge and the mysteries of divine grace amid the "Christ-haunted" Protestant South in all its comical and horrifying incongruity. All of her novels and short story collections, including Wise Blood, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, The Violent Bear It Away, Everything That Rises Must Converge, and more, are included in this Library of America collection, which is the most comprehensive ever published.
536 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 25, 2023
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Flannery O'Connor
213 books5,285 followersCritics note novels
Wise Blood
(1952) and
The Violent Bear It Away
(1960) and short stories, collected in such works as
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
(1955), of American writer Mary Flannery O'Connor for their explorations of religious faith and a spare literary style.
The Georgia state college for women educated O’Connor, who then studied writing at the Iowa writers' workshop and wrote much of Wise Blood at the colony of artists at Yaddo in upstate New York. She lived most of her adult life on Andalusia, ancestral farm of her family outside Milledgeville, Georgia.
O’Connor wrote Everything That Rises Must Converge (1964). When she died at the age of 39 years, America lost one of its most gifted writers at the height of her powers.
Survivors published her essays were published in Mystery and Manners (1969). Her Complete Stories , published posthumously in 1972, won the national book award for that year. Survivors published her letters in The Habit of Being (1979). In 1988, the Library of America published Collected Works of Flannery O'Connor, the first so honored postwar writer.
People in an online poll in 2009 voted her Complete Stories as the best book to win the national book award in the six-decade history of the contest.
The Georgia state college for women educated O’Connor, who then studied writing at the Iowa writers' workshop and wrote much of Wise Blood at the colony of artists at Yaddo in upstate New York. She lived most of her adult life on Andalusia, ancestral farm of her family outside Milledgeville, Georgia.
O’Connor wrote Everything That Rises Must Converge (1964). When she died at the age of 39 years, America lost one of its most gifted writers at the height of her powers.
Survivors published her essays were published in Mystery and Manners (1969). Her Complete Stories , published posthumously in 1972, won the national book award for that year. Survivors published her letters in The Habit of Being (1979). In 1988, the Library of America published Collected Works of Flannery O'Connor, the first so honored postwar writer.
People in an online poll in 2009 voted her Complete Stories as the best book to win the national book award in the six-decade history of the contest.
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February 9, 2023
“She would have been a good woman,” The Misfit said, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”
Flannery O’Connor, I love your dark and twisted southern gothic soul.
Flannery O’Connor, I love your dark and twisted southern gothic soul.
October 7, 2023
If Flannery O’Connor is one of the “great” writers of Americana fiction it doesn’t say much about American fiction. Woefully slow, boring, and tedious stories. Couldn’t finish it. Waste of time.
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