Flannery O'Connor is one of the great American short story writers whose subjects are the duality of the Deep South and her Catholic faith. O'Connor once referred to A Good Man is Hard to Find as 'nine stories about original sin'. Combining a deft comic sensibility with the grotesque and tragic, they are stories in which characters lead lives of brutal poverty and fierce cruelty; where ordinary events can tip over into misfortune, violence and despair.
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'O'Connor has a light touch, which lands like iron, and a keen, curious and unflattering eye. She is ferocious and elegant' Guardian 'Once read, she cannot be forgotten' Financial Times
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Flannery O'Connor is one of the great American short story writers, celebrated for her 'Southern Gothic' allegories of rural backwoods Georgia. She once referred to A Good Man Is Hard To Find as 'nine stories about original sin'. Combining a deft comic sensibility with the grotesque and tragic, they are stories in which characters lead lives of brutal poverty and fierce cruelty; where ordinary events tip over into misfortune, violence and despair. With her merciless eye for detail and ear for dialogue, Flannery O'Connor has been likened to a Southern Jane Austen.
"O'Connor has a light touch, which lands like iron, and a keen, curious and unflattering eye. She is ferocious and elegant." Guardian
"She was for me the first great modern writer of the South." Alice Walker
"Her instruments are a brutal irony, a slam-bang humour and a style of writing as balefully direct as a death sentence." Time
"Much savagery, compassion, farce, art and truth have gone into these stories. Miss O'Connor's characters are wholeheartedly horrible, and almost better than life. I find it hard to think of a funnier or more frightening writer." Robert Lowell
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Flannery O'Connor uses language deliciously to describe and lambast the foibles of the human race. A superlative short story collection that begs to be read and read and read again. She is wicked and funny and hits the nail on the head every time. If you like Faulkner and McCullers, you will love O'Connor.
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This is Flannery O'Connor's best work. It also happens to be a collection of the most wonderful short stories you could hope to read.
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This book was recommended for our book group, and it had a mixed reception! Don't read all the stories at one sitting, they are quite disturbing. Flannery O'Connor is an amazing writer who observes people and their fears and foibles very shrewdly. The title story is a classic - real American gothic; bit like watching 'Casualty' where you just know that the calm scene at the beginning will end badly! She is also very funny, but some of our group did find her depressing - "all these people in the stories are so horrible!". But hey, it's fiction and I am really glad I read her.
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