Description
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award
I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her letters . . . There she stands, a phoenix risen from her own words: calm, slow, funny, courteous, both modest and very sure of herself, intense, sharply penetrating, devout but never pietistic, downright, occasionally fierce, and honest in a way that restores honor to the word.--Sally Fitzgerald, from the IntroductionAuthor: Flannery O'Connor
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 08/01/1988
Pages: 640
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.01w x 1.74d
ISBN13: 9780374521042
ISBN10: 0374521042
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Literary Collections | Letters
About the Author
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) was one of America's most gifted writers. She wrote two novels, Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away, and two story collections, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge. Her Complete Stories, published posthumously in 1972, won the National Book Award that year, and in a 2009 online poll it was voted as the best book to have won the award in the contest's 60-year history. Her essays were published in Mystery and Manners and her letters in The Habit of Being.