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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

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ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

In 1955, with this short story collection, 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 that would become synonymous with her name, these stories show O'Connor's unique, grotesque view of life-- infused with religious symbolism, haunted by apocalyptic possibility, sustained by the tragic comedy of human behavior, confronted by the necessity of salvation.

With these classic stories-- including "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," "Good Country People," "The Displaced Person," and seven other acclaimed tales-- O'Connor earned a permanent place in the hearts of American readers.

"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

"In these stories the rural South is, for the first time, viewed by a writer who orthodoxy matches her talent. The results are revolutionary." -- The New York Times Book Review

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) was born in Savannah, Georgia. She earned her M.F.A. at the University of Iowa, but lived most of her life in the South, where she became an anomaly among post-World War II authors-- a Roman Catholic woman whose stated purpose was to reveal the mystery of God's grace in everyday life. Her work-- novels, short stories, letters, and criticism-- received a number of awards, including the National Book Award.

The Complete Stories

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Winner of the National Book Award

The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find.

O'Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, "Judgement Day"--sent to her publisher shortly before her death—is a brilliantly rewritten and transfigured version of "The Geranium." Taken together, these stories reveal a lively, penetrating talent that has given us some of the most powerful and disturbing fiction of the twentieth century. Also included is an introduction by O'Connor's longtime editor and friend, Robert Giroux.
Wise Blood: A Novel

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Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. Focused on the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate fate, this tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdoms gives us one of the most riveting characters in twentieth-century American fiction.
Wise Blood is a comedy with a fierce, Old Testament soul. Flannery O'Connor has no truck with such newfangled notions as psychology. Driven by forces outside their control, her characters are as one-dimensional--and mysterious--as figures on a frieze. Hazel Motes, for instance, has the temperament of a martyr, even though he spends most of the book trying to get God to go away. As a child he's convinced that "the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin." When that doesn't work, and when he returns from Korea determined "to be converted to nothing instead of evil," he still can't go anywhere without being mistaken for a preacher. (Not that the hat and shiny glare-blue suit help.) No matter what Hazel does, Jesus moves "from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark..."

Adrift after four years in the service, Hazel takes a train to the city of Taulkinham, buys himself a "rat-colored car," and sets about preaching on street corners for the Church Without Christ, "where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way." Along the way he meets Enoch Emery, who's only 18 years old but already works for the city, as well the blind preacher Asa Hawks and his illegitimate daughter, Sabbath Lily. (Her letter to an advice column: "Dear Mary, I am a bastard and a bastard shall not enter the kingdom of heaven as we all know, but I have this personality that makes boys follow me. Do you think I should neck or not?") Subsequent events involve a desiccated, centuries-old dwarf--Gonga the Giant Jungle Monarch--and Hazel's nemesis, Hoover Shoats, who starts the rival Church of Christ Without Christ. If you think these events don't end happily, you might be right.

Wise Blood is a savage satire of America's secular, commercial culture, as well as the humanism it holds so dear ("Dear Sabbath," Mary Brittle writes back, "Light necking is acceptable, but I think your real problem is one of adjustment to the modern world. Perhaps you ought to re-examine your religious values to see if they meet your needs in Life.") But the book's ultimate purpose is Religious, with a capital R--no metaphors, no allusions, just the thing itself in all its fierce glory. When Hazel whispers "I'm not clean," for instance, O'Connor thinks he is perfectly right. For readers unaccustomed to holding low comedy and high seriousness in their heads at the same time, all this can come as something of a shock. Who else could offer an allegory about free will, redemption, and original sin right alongside the more elemental pleasure of witnessing Enoch Emery dress up in a gorilla suit? Nobody else, that's who. And that's OK. More than one Flannery O'Connor in this world might show us more truth than we could bear. --Mary Park

Flannery O'Connor : Collected Works : Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays & Letters (Library of America)

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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.
Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons HC

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This book reveals the last well-kept secret of much-beloved icon of American literature Flannery O'Connor's creative life: she did not set out to be a fiction writer, but a cartoonist. Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons is the first book devoted to the author's work in the visual arts. It emphasizes O'Connor's most prolific period as a cartoonist, drawing for her high school and college publications in the early 1940s. While many of these images lampoon student life and the impact of World War II on the home front, something much more is happening. O'Connor learns how to set up and carry a joke visually, how to write a good one-liner and set it off against a background of complex visual narration. She develops and asserts her taste for a stock set of character types, attitudes, situations, exaggerations, and grotesques, and she learns how to present them not to distort the truth, but to expose her vision of it. She worked in both pen-and-ink and linoleum cuts, and her rough-hewn technique combined with her acidic observations form a visual precursor to her prose.
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

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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

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Local book events - Savannah Morning News
Savannah Morning News, GA - May 24, 2009
Local book eventsThe Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home will present a free lecture by author Allan Gurganus. Gurganus is the author of bestselling novel, "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All." 4 pm May 28, Effingham Branch Library, 810 Highway 119 South.

Flannery O'Connor Is the Latest Author Reintroduced by “Lost” - findingDulcinea
findingDulcinea, New York - May 14, 2009
Flannery O'Connor Is the Latest Author Reintroduced by “Lost” - findingDulcinea findingDulcineaFlannery O'Connor Is the Latest Author Reintroduced by “Lost”As “Lost” fans lament the time until the sixth season begins, they have many mysteries to ponder, including the significance of a book, Flannery O'Connor's “Everything That Rises Must Converge,” shown during Wednesday night's season finale.

BOOKMARKS: The Road to Andalusia - StarNewsOnline.com
StarNewsOnline.com, NC - May 20, 2009
BOOKMARKS: The Road to AndalusiaFortunately, we had time to take a detour to Milledgeville, Georgia's capital from 1806 to 1868 and, just incidentally, the hometown of Pulitzer Prize winner Flannery O'Connor, author of "Wise Blood," "The Violent Bear It Away" and the classic

O'Connor's Work to Be Featured on Season Finale of ABC's 'Lost' - California Chronicle
California Chronicle, CA - May 13, 2009
O'Connor's Work to Be Featured on Season Finale of ABC's 'Lost'May 13--The ABC television show "LOST" has a loyal legion of fans and followers, as does Milledgeville's literary icon Flannery O'Connor. Now the two have something in common as the TV show pays homage to the Southern author in tonight's season finale.

Flannery O' Connor is Dead but her works still lives - Thaindian.com
Thaindian.com, Thailand - May 14, 2009
Flannery O' Connor is Dead but her works still livesIn the year 1979, writer Flannery O' Connor's work, “Wise Blood” made it to the silver screen. The screen version of the novel was directed by John Huston and even though it was low budget film, it was greatly praised and then appreciated only to be Tackling Southern Gothic's Queen