A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND
stories
Flannery O'Connor
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'Once read, she cannot be forgotten'
Financial Times
'Ferocious and elegant'
Guardian
Flannery O'Connor is one of the great American short story writers, celebrated for her 'Southern Gothic' allegories of rural backwoods Georgia. She once referred to A Good Man is Hard to Find as 'nine stories about original sin'. Combining a deft comic sensibility with the groteque and tragic, they are stories in which characters lead lives of brutal poverty and fierce cruelty; where ordinary events tip over into misfortune, violence and despair. With her merciless eye for detail and ear for dialogue, Flannery O'Connor has been likened to a Southern Jane Austen.
Flannery O'Connor
was born in Georgia, USA in 1925 and died there thirty-nine years later. Her work included another collection of stories, Everything that Rises must Converge, and two short novels, Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away. In 1979 her collected letters were pub lished under the title The Habit of Being.
The Flannery O'Connor collection