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9780316018999

Flannery A Life of Flannery O'Connor

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    9780316018999

  • ISBN10:

    0316018996

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-03-15
  • Publisher: Back Bay Books
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Summary

The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise ood, 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 her from O'Connor was made available to scholars, including Brad Gooch, in 2006.

Author Biography

Brad Gooch is the author of the acclaimed biography of Frank O'Hara, City Poet, as well as other nonfiction and three novels. The recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim fellowships, he earned his Ph.D. at ColumbiaUniversity and is Professor of English at WilliamPatersonUniversity in New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Walking Backwardp. 3
Savannahp. 13
Milledgeville: "A Bird Sanctuary"p. 51
"MFOC"p. 82
Iowap. 117
Up Northp. 148
The Life You Savep. 189
The "Bible" Salesmanp. 222
Freaks and Folksp. 259
Everything That Risesp. 297
"Revelation"p. 338
Acknowledgmentsp. 375
Notesp. 387
Indexp. 437
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