Flannery : a life of Flannery O'Connor

Author(s)

• Gooch, Brad

Bibliographic Information

Flannery : a life of Flannery O'Connor

Brad Gooch

（Back Bay books）

Little, Brown, 2010, c2009

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, 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.

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Details

• NCID: BB19420567
• ISBN:
  • 9780316018999
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: 448 p., [16] p. of plates
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS3565.C57
  • DC22 : 813/.54
  • DC22 : B
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : O'Connor, Flannery
  • LCSH : Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
  • LCSH : Milledgeville (Ga.) -- Biography
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA21513754