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This is the complete collection of stories from one of the most
original and powerful American writers of the twentieth century.
Including A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must
Converge, this collection also contains several stories only
available in this volume.
A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. The grandmother suggests they change course in order to avoid "The Misfit", an escaped convict who's reportedly heading towards Florida. But when their car turns over in a ditch, who should they flag down for help but the very man whose picture they recognise from the paper...
Flannery O'Connor's famous fifties story evokes heat and dust, family and feuding, God and grace - and is utterly uncompromising in its brutality.
These ten classic stories are masterful depictions of the underside
of life, deep in the American South. On receiving an early copy,
Evelyn Waugh remarked 'If these stories are in fact the work of a
young lady, they are indeed remarkable. 'She's horrifyingly funny .
. . It's that cool, removed style combined with very black
stories.' Donna Tartt 'No one has written better about the reality
of evil. Few have written as well, with such sharp-edged
compassion, about the weaknesses and follies of humanity, about the
operation of grace in our lives and about the necessity of
humility. Her stories - her intelligence and passion - can restore
reason to minds unhinged by our fame-obsessed, technology-obsessed
culture.' Dean Koontz, New York Times
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, Flannery O'Connor's first novel, is the story of Hazel
Motes who, released from the armed services, returns to the
evangelical Deep South. There he begins a private battle against
the religiosity of the community and in particular against Asa
Hawkes, the 'blind' preacher, and his degenerate fifteen-year-old
daughter. In desperation Hazel founds his own religion, 'The Church
without Christ', and this extraordinary narrative moves towards its
savage and macabre resolution. 'A literary talent that has about it
the uniqueness of greatness.' Sunday Telegraph 'No other major
American writer of our century has constructed a fictional world so
energetically and forthrightly charged by religious investigation.'
The New Yorker 'A genius.' New York Times
"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 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.
First published in 1955, "The Violent Bear It Away" is now a
landmark in American literature. It is a dark and absorbing example
of the Gothic sensibility and bracing satirical voice that are
united in Flannery O'Conner's work. In it, the orphaned Francis
Marion Tarwater and his cousins, the schoolteacher Rayber, defy the
prophecy of their dead uncle--that Tarwater will become a prophet
and will baptize Rayber's young son, Bishop. A series of struggles
ensues: Tarwater fights an internal battle against his innate faith
and the voices calling him to be a prophet while Rayber tries to
draw Tarwater into a more "reasonable" modern world. Both wrestle
with the legacy of their dead relatives and lay claim to Bishop's
soul.
O'Connor observes all this with an astonishing combination of irony
and compassion, humor and pathos. The result is a novel whose range
and depth reveal a brilliant and innovative writers acutely alert
to where the sacred lives and to where it does not.
'A rich, deep moral view of fiction and life: the lessons from this
book were essential to my development as an artist.' Brandon Taylor
At her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished
essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that
had appeared in scattered publications during her too-short
lifetime. The keen writings comprising Mystery and Manners,
selected and edited by O'Connor's lifelong friends Sally and Robert
Fitzgerald, are characterized by the directness and simplicity of
the author's style, a fine-tuned wit, understated perspicacity, and
profound faith. The book opens with "The King of the Birds," her
famous account of raising peacocks at her home in Milledgeville,
Georgia. Also included are: three essays on regional writing,
including "The Fiction Writer and His Country" and "Some Aspects of
the Grotesque in Southern Fiction"; two pieces on teaching
literature, including "Total Effect and the 8th Grade"; and four
articles concerning the writer and religion, including "The
Catholic Novel in the Protestant South." Essays such as "The Nature
and Aim of Fiction" and "Writing Short Stories" are widely seen as
gems. This bold and brilliant essay-collection is a must for all
readers, writers, and students of modern American literature.
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Spiritual Writings (Paperback)
Robert Ellsberg; Introduction by Richard Giannone; Flannery O'Connor
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Draws on all of O'Connor's works to reveal the unique spiritual
legacy of one of America's most significant modern writers.
Includes the complete text of her classic story, "Revelation."
At her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered publications during her too-short lifetime. The keen writings comprising Mystery and Manners, selected and edited by O'Connor's lifelong friends Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, are characterized by the directness and simplicity of the author's style, a fine-tuned wit, understated perspicacity, and profound faith.
The book opens with "The King of the Birds," her famous account of raising peacocks at her home in Milledgeville, Georgia. Also included are: three essays on regional writing, including "The Fiction Writer and His Country" and "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction"; two pieces on teaching literature, including "Total Effect and the 8th Grade"; and four articles concerning the writer and religion, including "The Catholic Novel in the Protestant South." Essays such as "The Nature and Aim of Fiction" and "Writing Short Stories" are widely seen as gems.
This bold and brilliant essay-collection is a must for all readers, writers, and students of contemporary American literature.
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.
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Wise Blood (Paperback)
Flannery O'Connor
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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.
Flannery O'Connor was working on "Everything That Rises Must
Converge" at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite
legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she
scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and
morality. The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the
beautiful and the grotesque; each carries her highly individual
stamp and could have been written by no one else.
"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. The
contributors are Michael O. Bellamy, Hallman B. Bryant, William S.
Doxey, J.Peter Dyson, Madison Jones, W.S. Marks, III, Carter
Martin, William J. Scheick, Mary Jane Schenck, and J.O.Tate.
Frederick Asals teaches at New College, the University of Toronto.
He is the author of Flannery O'Connor: The Imagination of Extremity
and of articles on O'Connor and other American writers. A volume in
a new series, Women Writers: Text and Contexts, edited by Thomas L.
Erskine and Connie L. Richards. Series Board: Martha Banta, Barbara
Christian, and Paul Lauter.
A literary treasure of over one hundred unpublished letters from
National Book Award-winning author Flannery O'Connor and her circle
of extraordinary friends. Flannery O'Connor is a master of
20th-century American fiction, joining, since her untimely death in
1964, the likes of Hawthorne, Hemingway, and Faulkner. Those
familiar with her work know that her powerful ethical vision was
rooted in a quiet, devout faith and informed all she wrote and did.
Good Things out of Nazareth, a much-anticipated collection of many
of O'Connor's unpublished letters, along with those of literary
luminaries such as Walker Percy (author of The Moviegoer), Robert
Giroux, Caroline Gordon (author of None Should Look Back),
Katherine Anne Porter (Ship of Fools), and movie critic Stanley
Kauffmann, explores such themes as creativity, faith, suffering,
and writing. Brought together they form a riveting literary
portrait of these friends, artists, and thinkers. Here we find
their joys and loves, as well as their trials and tribulations as
they struggle with doubt and illness while championing their
Christian beliefs and often confronting racism in American society
during the Civil Rights era.
The Best American Catholic Short Stories captures twenty of the
best short stories from thirteen American Catholic writers over the
past seventy-five years. Spanning most of the twentieth century,
the stories in this collection deal with many of the issues brought
into the spotlight with Vatican II. One ongoing area of
controversy, of course, is in the very notion of Catholic fiction.
What constitutes a work as "Catholic"? This new collection, with
its rich variety of themes, styles, and tones, takes an important
step in answering this question. Pat Schnapp and Dan McVeigh have
assembled an extraordinary sampling that is unique in its subject
and scope. Major contributors include Mary Gordon, Flannery
O'Connor, Ron Hansen, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and Richard Russo.
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