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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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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.
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.
From the Back Cover
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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