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A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor (Short Story Group Read)
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I have loved Flannery O'Connor since my teens. I read a lot of her short stories in college. I think I'm drawn to her southern gothic style of writing. "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is one of her best known stories. Enjoy.
Thanks T, nice to be remebered of her, i Love her work, she was an inspiration to many writers.Joe Lansdale recommends her and mentions her as an inspiration in an interview I had with him.
Check out interview >>>> http://more2read.com/review/interview...
Yay I must say I love these short stories. This is really my first intro to them. Thanks Tressa.
Good interview, Lou. Do you send the questions to the writer and he e-mails the answers? I'm always curious how this works these days. You're welcome, Jenn. It's nice to be able to discuss them again. I've been out of college for many, many, many years.
I've read it many times, but will read it again to refresh my memory.
At Andalusia, the Cline family dairy farm located between Milledgeville and Eatonton in Baldwin County, Mary Flannery O'Connor lived and wrote her greatest short stories and novels while suffering from a debilitating disease, lupus. Filled with visions of salvation and damnation, her stories are difficult to grasp but offer the reader a glimpse of grace. An only child, she was born in Savannah on March 25, 1925 to Edward Francis O'Connor Jr. and Regina Cline. The family lived there until 1938 when, after a brief move to Atlanta, it relocated to Milledgeville because of the illness of her father. When Flannery was fifteen he died of lupus. Her mother outlived her and died in 1995. Flannery was graduated from Georgia State College for Women in 1945 and for two years attended the Iowa State University workshops for writers, completing her thesis there in 1947. For a year she lived at the Yaddo writer's colony in Saratoga Springs and then elsewhere in New York and Connecticut until, on a return visit to Milledgeville in December 1950, she too was stricken with lupus. Henceforth her mother cared for her at Andalusia where between bouts with the disease, Flannery wrote. She published her first novel, Wise Blood, in 1952, a series of short stories, A Good Man is Hard to Find, in 1955, her second novel, The Violent Bare It Away, in 1960, and her second collection of short stories, Everything That Rises Must Converge, in 1965. She died from lupus on August 3, 1964 at the age of 39. O'Connor's The Complete Stories, published posthumously in 1971, received the National Book Award. Raised Roman Catholic, O'Connor found southern evangelicalism, with its Protestant emphasis on immediate conversion, worthy exploration. The played-out red clay of the postwar Piedmont provided fertile ground for Flannery's imagination as her stories interjected groteque characters into the everyday lives of the Georgians she described. With incongruities and shocking acts O'Connor upset the narrative and broke down the conventional world of her subjects, suddenly offering them a clear view of reality. Thus her understanding of religious belief and the human condition elevated he writings to the level of the greatest of literature.
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
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