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Loading... Flannery O'Connor: Mystery and Manners (1969)by Sally Fitzgerald (Editor), Robert Fitzgerald (Editor), Flannery O'Connor
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is a great collection of, as the subtitle states clearly, the occasional essays penned by O'Connor. While no theme ties the material together, it yet offers a genuine insight into her thinking on matters as idiosyncratic as raising peacocks, and as steeped and penetrating as her views on writing short stories. If you're already a fan of her work - and I am - then you'll be delighted with this text. It almost feels like the kind of conversation one might have had with her in a coffee shop or at the front of a room after a conference presentation, and yet her writing contains the kind of edge and humour that can only come from craft. This was a delight to read.. So many different pieces here; essays, talks, reviews and wonderful insights into the art of writing. I found myself underlining so many parts of this book; O'Connor had such a wit and way of delineating truths that was often blunt but refreshing. I will definitely re-read this. no reviews | add a review
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At her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered publications during her too-short lifetime.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 profound faith. The book opens with "The King of the Birds," her famous account of raising peacocks at her home in Milledgeville, Georgia. Also included are: three essays on regional writing, including "The Fiction Writer and His Country" and "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction"; two pieces on teaching literature, including "Total Effect and the 8th Grade"; and four articles concerning the writer and religion, including "The Catholic Novel in the Protestant South." Essays such as "The Nature and Aim of Fiction" and "Writing Short Stories" are widely seen as gems. This bold and brilliant essay-collection is a must for all readers, writers, and students of contemporary American literature. No library descriptions found. |
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