Flannery A Life of Flannery O'Connor

Name: Flannery A Life of Flannery O'Connor
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ISBN: 9780316018999

ISBN-10: 0316018996

ISBN-13: 9780316018999

Edition: 2010

Authors: Brad Gooch

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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…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Publication date: 6/3/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.59" wide x 8.23" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Brad Gooch is the author of the acclaimed biography of Frank O'Hara, City Poet , as well as Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor , a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, along with other nonfiction and three novels. The recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim fellowships, he earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University and is Professor of English at William Paterson University in New Jersey. He lives in New York City.



Prologue: Walking Backward






Savannah



Milledgeville: "A Bird Sanctuary"



"MFOC"



Iowa



Up North






The Life You Save



The "Bible" Salesman



Freaks and Folks



Everything That Rises



"Revelation"


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index