Terrible Speed of Mercy A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor

Name: Terrible Speed of Mercy A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor
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ISBN: 9781595550231

ISBN-10: 1595550232

ISBN-13: 9781595550231

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jonathan Rogers

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Flannery O'Connor's fiction is a reminder that the rural South is as good a place as any for transcendence to break through and reveal itself to the human gaze.The story of Flannery O'Connor's life is the story of her inner life more than her outer life. In a letter to a friend she wrote, "My audience are the people who think God is dead. At least these are the people I am conscious of writing for." And writing for such a people required that she find a whole new language, a language she had to make up as she went along, drawing startling and large figures to get the attention of the almost blind, shouting in the ear of the almost deaf.Her famous short story A Good Man Is Hard to Find was…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.46" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English

Jonathan Rogers received his undergraduate degree from Furman University in South Carolina and holds a Ph.D. in seventeenth-century English literature from Vanderbilt University. The Rogers family lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where Jonathan makes a living as a writer.