Flannery O'Connor
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Tarwater, a fourteen year old boy, lives with his great-uncle in a cottage in the woods. When the great-uncle dies of old age at the breakfast table, the boy puts the cottage on fire and runs off. After a while he decides to go to his uncle Rayber, a schoolteacher.
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This collection of nine short stories by Flannery O'Connor was published posthumously in 1965. The flawed characters of each story are fully revealed in apocalyptic moments of conflict and violence that are presented with comic detachment. The title story is a tragicomedy about social pride, racial bigotry, generational conflict, false liberalism, and filial dependence. The protagonist, Julian Chestny, is hypocritically disdainful of his mother's...
4) Wise blood
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English
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A young war veteran who returns to a Tennessee mountain town to found a new religion blinds himself with quicklime and in dying finds his own salvation.
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English
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At her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered publications during her too-short lifetime. The keen writings comprising Mystery and Manners, selected and edited by O'Connor's lifelong friends Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, are characterized by the directness and simplicity of the author's style, a fine-tuned wit, understated perspicacity, and...
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Español
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Este volumen recoge por primera vez en castellano la esperada colección de muchas de las cartas inéditas de Flannery O'Connor, junto con las de grandes de la literatura como Walker Percy, Caroline Gordon, Katherine Anne Porter, Robert Giroux y el crítico de cine Stanley Kauffmann.
Las cartas exploran temas como la creatividad, la fe, el sufrimiento y la escritura. Reunidas formas un fascinante retrato literario de estos amigos y de sus tribulaciones....
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Library of America volume 39
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
1281 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
10) A prayer journal
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Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
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First edition.
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xiii, 96 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English