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Good Things Out Of Nazareth:the Uncollected Letters Of Flannery O'Connor and Friends
[Hardback - 2019]
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Category: Literature
Sub-category: Letters
Additional Category: Christianity - Literary Essays
Publisher: Convergent Books | ISBN: 9780525575061 | Pages: 416
Shipping Weight: .646 | Dimensions: 6.49 x 1.31 x 9.45 inches

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A literary treasure of over one hundred unpublished letters from National Book Award-winning author Flannery O'Connor and her circle of extraordinary friends.

Flannery O’Connor is a master of twentieth-century American fiction, joining, since her untimely death in 1964, the likes of Hawthorne, Hemingway, and Faulkner. Those familiar with her work know that her powerful ethical vision was rooted in a quiet, devout faith and informed all she wrote and did.

Good Things Out of Nazareth, a much-anticipated collection of many of O’Connor’s previously unpublished letters—along with those of literary luminaries such as Walker Percy (The Moviegoer), Caroline Gordon (None Shall Look Back), Katherine Anne Porter (Ship of Fools), Robert Giroux and movie critic Stanley Kauffmann. The letters explore such themes as creativity, faith, suffering, and writing. Brought together, they form a riveting literary portrait of these friends, artists, and thinkers. Here we find their joys and loves, as well as their trials and tribulations as they struggle with doubt and illness while championing their beliefs and often confronting racism in American society during the civil rights era.

Praise for Good Things Out of Nazareth

“An epistolary group portrait that will appeal to readers interested in the Catholic underpinnings of O'Connor's life and work . . . These letters by the National Book Award–winning short story writer and her friends alternately fit and break the mold. Anyone looking for Southern literary gossip will find plenty of barbs. . . . But there’s also higher-toned talk on topics such as the symbolism in O’Connor’s work and the nature of free will.”—Kirkus Reviews
 
“A fascinating set of Flannery O’Connor’s correspondence . . . The compilation is highlighted by gems from O’Connor’s writing mentor, Caroline Gordon. . . . While O’Connor’s milieu can seem intimidatingly insular, the volume allows readers to feel closer to the writer, by glimpsing O’Connor’s struggles with lupus, which sometimes leaves her bedridden or walking on crutches, and by hearing her famously strong Georgian accent in the colloquialisms she sprinkles throughout the letters. . . . This is an important addition to the knowledge of O’Connor, her world, and her writing.”—Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Critics note novelsWise Blood(1952) andThe Violent Bear It Away(1960) and short stories, collected in such works asA Good Man Is Hard to Find(1955), of American writerMary Flannery O'Connorfor their explorations of religious faith and a spare literary style.The Georgia state college for women educated O’Connor, who then studied writing at the Iowa writers' workshop and wrote much ofWise Bloodat the colony of artists at Yaddo in upstate New York. She lived most of her adult life on Andalusia, ancestral farm of her family outside Milledgeville, Georgia.O’Connor wroteEverything That Rises Must Converge(1964). When she died at the age of 39 years, America lost one of its most gifted writers at the height of her powers.Survivors published her essays were published inMystery and Manners(1969). HerComplete Stories, published posthumously in 1972, won the national book award for that year. Survivors published her letters inThe Habit of Being(1979). In 1988, the Library of America publishedCollected Worksof Flannery O'Connor, the first so honored postwar writer.People in an online poll in 2009 voted herComplete Storiesas the best book to win the national book award in the six-decade history of the contest.

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