false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255666050m/5350543.jpg 5350543 3 The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, <EM>Wise Blood</EM>, 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, <EM>The Habit of Being</EM>, 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. 5418030 25 2 2009 Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor total:179|5:42|4:69|3:58|2:7|1:3| 179 677 557 87 3 7 false false Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 16:48:42 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 19:27:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 true false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 12:36:18 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 05:56:04 -0700 2009 1
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