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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…
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3 editions- Ebook · English · 2009Little, Brown and Company · 9780316040655
- Other · English · 2010Back Bay Books · 9780316018999
- Other · English · 2008Little, Brown and Co. · 448 pages · 9780316000666
American AuthorsAuthors, AmericanBiographyBiography & AutobiographyNonfictionO'connor, flannery, 1925-1964Authors, biographyMilledgeville (ga.)
