Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor

Brad Gooch

Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
Country
United States
Published
3 June 2010
Pages
464
ISBN
9780316018999

Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor

Brad Gooch

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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