Author

Flannery O'Connor

1925-1964 · American Catholic novelist and short-story writer from Georgia

About Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor was an American Catholic fiction writer from Georgia whose stories use grotesque comedy, violence, disability, and theological shock. Living with lupus for much of her adult life, she wrote with unusual clarity about bodily limits and grace.

Notable works

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (1955)
Wise Blood (1952)
The Violent Bear It Away (1960)
Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965)
Mystery and Manners (1969)

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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

Flannery O'Connor

1955 · Postwar Contemporary · Short Stories

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories gathers Flannery O'Connor's early fiction around Southern households where manners, piety, resentment, and violence collide. In the title story, a grandmother's nostalgia and manipulations help divert a family trip toward the Misfit, whose murders expose both her shallow goodness and her final reach toward kinship.

high medical relevanceFaith / Religion Guilt Sin War Violence