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The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor Book

The Habit of Being : Paperback : Farrar, Straus and Giroux : 9780374521042 : 0374521042 : 01 Aug 1988 : Reading Flannery O'Connor's letters, one feels the living presence in them. Their tone, their content, and even the number of those she corresponded with, reveal the vivid life that was in her, and much of the quality of a personality often badly guessed at.Read More

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    "I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her letters . . . There she stands, a phoenix risen from her own words: calm, slow, funny, courteous, both modest and very sure of herself, intense, sharply penetrating, devout but never pietistic, downright, occasionally fierce, and honest in a way that restores honor to the word."—Sally Fitzgerald, from the Introduction Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award Table of Contents Introduction by Sally Fitzgerald Part I: Up North and Getting Home 1948-1952 Part II: Day In and Day Out 1953-1958 Part III: "The Violent Bear It Away" 1959-1963 Part IV: The Last Year 1964 Index Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1925. When she died at the age of

  • 0374521042
  • 9780374521042
  • Flannery O'Connor
  • 1 April 1988
  • Farrar Straus Giroux
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 624
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