Flannery O’Connor
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Flannery O’Connor: A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
Oddball prophets caught in a web they wove themselves. They are misfits, wanderers, and souls searching for faith and absolution. Many of them are, to one extent or another, hypocrites; others are almost unbelievably naïve. All of them are Southerners – and yet, even the most outlandish among Flannery O’Connor’s protagonists come across as entirely […]
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Literature
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Flannery O’Connor: Collected Works (Library of America)
A literary voice silenced way too early. Flannery O’Connor did not even live to see her 40th birthday; she died, in 1964, of lupus, the same inflammatory disease which had killed her father when she was a mere teenager and which all too soon began to cripple her as well. A graduate of the Iowa […]
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