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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Flannery O'ConnorPublisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Imprint: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.80cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9780374508043ISBN 10: 0374508046 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 01 January 1969 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsFlannery O'Connor ranks with Mark Twain and Scott Fitzgerald among our finest prose stylists. Her epigrams alone are worth the price of the book . . . which should be read by every writer and would-be writer and lover of writing. --John Leonard, The New York Times <br> [O'Connor] was not just the best 'woman writer' of [her] time and place; she expressed something secret about America, called 'the South, ' with that transcendent gift for expressing the real spirit of a culture that is conveyed by those writers . . . who become nothing but what they see. Completeness is one word for it: relentlessness [and] unsparingness would be others. She was a genius. --Alfred Kazin, The New York Times Book Review <br> Flannery O'Connor ranks with Mark Twain and Scott Fitzgerald among our finest prose stylists. Her epigrams alone are worth the price of the book . . . which should be read by every writer and would-be writer and lover of writing. --John Leonard, The New York Times [O'Connor] was not just the best 'woman writer' of [her] time and place; she expressed something secret about America, called 'the South, ' with that transcendent gift for expressing the real spirit of a culture that is conveyed by those writers . . . who become nothing but what they see. Completeness is one word for it: relentlessness [and] unsparingness would be others. She was a genius. --Alfred Kazin, The New York Times Book Review Flannery O'Connor ranks with Mark Twain and Scott Fitzgerald among our finest prose stylists. Her epigrams alone are worth the price of the book . . . which should be read by every writer and would-be writer and lover of writing. John Leonard, The New York Times [O'Connor] was not just the best 'woman writer' of [her] time and place; she expressed something secret about America, called 'the South, ' with that transcendent gift for expressing the real spirit of a culture that is conveyed by those writers . . . who become nothing but what they see. Completeness is one word for it: relentlessness [and] unsparingness would be others. She was a genius. Alfred Kazin, The New York Times Book Review Flannery O'Connor ranks with Mark Twain and Scott Fitzgerald among our finest prose stylists. Her epigrams alone are worth the price of the book . . . which should be read by every writer and would-be writer and lover of writing. John Leonard, The New York Times [O'Connor] was not just the best 'woman writer' of [her] time and place; she expressed something secret about America, called 'the South, ' with that transcendent gift for expressing the real spirit of a culture that is conveyed by those writers . . . who become nothing but what they see. Completeness is one word for it: relentlessness [and] unsparingness would be others. She was a genius. Alfred Kazin, The New York Times Book Review Flannery O'Connor ranks with Mark Twain and Scott Fitzgerald among our finest prose stylists. Her epigrams alone are worth the price of the book . . . which should be read by every writer and would-be writer and lover of writing. --John Leonard, The New York Times [O'Connor] was not just the best 'woman writer' of [her] time and place; she expressed something secret about America, called 'the South, ' with that transcendent gift for expressing the real spirit of a culture that is conveyed by those writers . . . who become nothing but what they see. Completeness is one word for it: relentlessness [and] unsparingness would be others. She was a genius. --Alfred Kazin, The New York Times Book Review Flannery O'Connor ranks with Mark Twain and Scott Fitzgerald among our finest prose stylists. Her epigrams alone are worth the price of the book . . . which should be read by every writer and would-be writer and lover of writing. --John Leonard, The New York Times <br><br> [O'Connor] was not just the best 'woman writer' of [her] time and place; she expressed something secret about America, called 'the South, ' with that transcendent gift for expressing the real spirit of a culture that is conveyed by those writers . . . who become nothing but what they see. Completeness is one word for it: relentlessness [and] unsparingness would be others. She was a genius. --Alfred Kazin, The New York Times Book Review <br> Author InformationFlannery 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |