Author : Flannery O'Connor
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 18,24 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374127522
Thirty one short stories that offer a picture of the Deep South.
Author : Flannery O'Connor
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374150125
"Everything That Rises Must Converge" (1965) is nine posthumous stories. The introduction is by Robert Fitzgerald.
Author : George Kilcourse
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 17,8 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780809140053
Reclaims Flannery O'Connor's Catholic identity and culture as the key to interpreting her stories and novels.
Author : Angela Ailamo O'Donnell
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814637264
Flannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith tells the remarkable story of the gifted young woman who set out from her native Georgia to develop her talents as a writer and eventually succeeded in becoming one of the most accomplished fiction writers of the twentieth century. Struck with a fatal disease just as her career was blooming, O’Connor was forced to return to her rural home and to live an isolated life, far from the literary world she longed to be a part of. In this insightful new biography, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell depicts O’Connor’s passionate devotion to her vocation, despite her crippling illness, the rich interior life she lived through her reading and correspondence, and the development of her deep and abiding faith in the face of her own impending mortality. She also explores some of O’Connor’s most beloved stories, detailing the ways in which her fiction served as a means for her to express her own doubts and limitations, along with the challenges and consolations of living a faithful life. O’Donnell’s biography recounts the poignant story of America’s preeminent Catholic writer and offers the reader a guide to her novels and stories so deeply informed by her Catholic faith. People of God is a series of inspiring biographies for the general reader. Each volume offers a compelling and honest narrative of the life of an important twentieth or twenty-first century Catholic. Some living and some now deceased, each of these women and men has known challenges and weaknesses familiar to most of us but responded to them in ways that call us to our own forms of heroism. Each offers a credible and concrete witness of faith, hope, and love to people of our own day.
Author : Flannery O'Connor
Publisher : Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 32,4 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) was an American author. Wise Blood was her first novel and one of her most famous works.
Author : Flannery O'Connor
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374217920
This collection shows Flannery O'Connor's extraordinary versatility and expertise as a practitioner of the essayistic form. The book opens with "The King of the Birds", her famous account of raising peacocks. There are three essays on regional writing, two on teaching literature, and four on the writer and religion. Essays such as "The Nature and Aim of Fiction" and "Writing Short Stories" are gems, and their value to the contemporary reader -- and writer -- is inestimable. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Laurence Enjolras
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 37,43 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780761810407
This volume presents an analysis of recurrent character types in Flannery O'Connor's short fiction, and "follows fallen men along the path leading to their redemption." The author expands on his premise that Flannery O'Connor depicts the human body as "ugly." He contends that O'Connor viewed her characters as "monsters who assail" and her readers caught "in the gruesome show of the puppet life through which they totter." The author suggests that her plots "could easily turn into nightmares" as the scenes she depicts "come to life not so much with people as with ghastly substitutes." He argues that even when Flannery O'Connor's characters are not crippled, they "appear as caricatures" because -- for her -- the human body is essentially deprived of, and not worthy of "dignity or respectability." The author closes with the suggestion that O'Connor's depiction of "physical ugliness and suffering, horrible events, and violent deaths should not distress the over-sensitive reader, " but be seen instead as opportunities for each of her characters to accept or reject Christ's offer of redemption and salvation.
Author : Flannery O'Connor
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 32,13 MB
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0374709696
"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.
Author : Craig Amason
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820327631
Flannery OConnor spent most of her life in Georgia. Most of OConnors fiction is also set in the state, in locales rich in symbolism and the ambience of southern rural and small-town life. Filled with contemporary and historical photos, this guide introduces OConnors readers to the places where the great writer lived and worked--places whose features and details sometimes found their way into her fiction. The guide describes such places as OConnors childhood home in Savannah; the Governors Mansion, Cline House, and Central State Hospital in Milledgeville; and the family farm, Andalusia. Numerous facts about OConnor and the people closest to her are woven into the site descriptions, as are critical observations about her Catholicism, her acute sense of character and place, and her fierce sense of humor. Features include: More than fifty full-color contemporary photographs and numerous black-and-white historical images An overview and chronology of OConnors life and legacy Maps to sites in Savannah, Milledgeville, and the house and grounds at Andalusia Discussions of OConnors life and writings Listing of OConnors works and suggestions for further reading All author royalties from sales of the guide will be donated to the Flannery OConnor-Andalusia Foundation.
Author : Brad Gooch
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316040657
The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in 1952. Her fierce, sometimes comic novels and stories reflected the darkly funny, vibrant, and theologically sophisticated woman who wrote them. Brad Gooch brings to life O'Connor's significant friendships -- with Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, Walker Percy, and James Dickey among others -- and her deeply felt convictions, as expressed in her communications with Thomas Merton, Elizabeth Bishop, and Betty Hester. Hester was famously known as "A" in O'Connor's collected letters, The Habit of Being, and a large cache of correspondence to her from O'Connor was made available to scholars, including Brad Gooch, in 2006. O'Connor's capacity to live fully -- despite the chronic disease that eventually confined her to her mother's farm in Georgia -- is illuminated in this engaging and authoritative biography. Praise for Flannery: "Flannery O'Connor, one of the best American writers of short fiction, has found her ideal biographer in Brad Gooch. With elegance and fairness, Gooch deals with the sensitive areas of race and religion in O'Connor's life. He also takes us back to those heady days after the war when O'Connor studied creative writing at Iowa. There is much that is new in this book, but, more important, everything is presented in a strong, clear light."-Edmund White "This splendid biography gives us no saint or martyr but the story of a gifted and complicated woman, bent on making the best of the difficult hand fate has dealt her, whether it is with grit and humor or with an abiding desire to make palpable to readers the terrible mystery of God's grace."-Frances Kiernan, author of Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy "A good biographer is hard to find. Brad Gooch is not merely good-he is extraordinary. Blessed with the eye and ear of a novelist, he has composed the life that admirers of the fierce and hilarious Georgia genius have long been hoping for."-Joel Conarroe, President Emeritus, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
