Flannery O'Connor

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Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award

"I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her letters . . . There she stands, a phoenix risen from her own words: calm, slow, funny, courteous, both modest and very sure of herself, intense, sharply penetrating, devout but never pietistic, downright, occasionally fierce, and honest in a way that restores honor to the word."--Sally Fitzgerald, from the Introduction

The Habit of Being

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Older copy, some browning on the fore edge, but text is clean

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Connecticut

A Novel

The passengers on the train to Taulkinham show mixed reactions when Haze questions their belief in Jesus.

Wise Blood

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Robert Giroux

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Alabama

Thirty-one tales depicting the humorous, if near tragic conditions of life in the Deep South during the fifties

The Complete Stories

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Arizona

"A back country orphan struggles to defy his uncle's prophesy that he will become a baptist prophet"--NoveList.

The Violent Bear It Away

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Occasional Prose

O'Connor discusses such subjects as the art of writing, the techniques for teaching literature, and the importance of religion to the creative artist

Mystery and Manners

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Dented edges and creased spine. A couple of stickers on exterior of Book. Minor interior highlighting. Book construction still sound.

Wisconsin

Three by Flannery O'Connor

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And Other Stories

A collection of short stories depicting the emotions and life-styles of the inhabitants of the rural South

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

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Robert Fitzgerald

Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

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3 by Flannery O'Connor

Great condition. There are thirty-one short stories here in all. 

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Paperback with very minor wear - there is a bookplate on the first page.

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This is a retired library looking in good condition

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"I would like to write a beautiful prayer," writes the young Flannery O'Connor in this deeply spiritual journal, recently discovered among her papers in Georgia. "There is a whole sensible world around me that I should be able to turn to Your praise." 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. "I must write down that I am to be an artist. Not in the sense of aesthetic frippery but in the sense of aesthetic craftsmanship; otherwise I will feel my loneliness continually . . . I do not want to be lonely all my life but people only make us lonelier by reminding us of God. Dear God please help me to be an artist, please let it lead to You."

O'Connor could not be more plain about her literary ambition: "Please help me dear God to be a good writer and to get something else accepted," she writes. Yet she struggles with any trace of self-regard: "Don't let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story."

As W. A. Sessions, who knew O'Connor, writes in his introduction, it was no coincidence that she began writing the stories that would become her first novel, Wise Blood, during the years when she wrote these singularly imaginative Christian meditations. Including a facsimile of the entire journal in O'Connor's own hand, A Prayer Journal is the record of a brilliant young woman's coming-of-age, a cry from the heart for love, grace, and art.

A Prayer Journal

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A Good Man Is Hard to Find is Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor herself singled it out by making it the title piece of her first collection and the story she most often chose for readings or talks to students. It is an unforgettable tale, both riveting and comic, of the confrontation of a family with violence and sudden death. More than anything else O'Connor ever wrote, this story mixes the comedy, violence, and religious concerns that characterize her fiction.

This casebook for the story includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of the author's life, the authoritative text of the story itself, comments and letters by O'Connor about the story, critical essays, and a bibliography. The critical essays span more than twenty years of commentary and suggest several approaches to the story--formalistic, thematic, deconstructionist-- all within the grasp of the undergraduate, while the introduction also points interested students toward still other resources. Useful for both beginning and advanced students, this casebook provides an in-depth introduction to one of America's most gifted modern writers.

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