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Work InformationComplete Stories by Flannery O'Connor (1971)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. What I love about Flannery O’Connor is this certain realistic and raw approach to storytelling she had which I find seldom elsewhere in literature. You don’t find this kind of liberality very often, where the author’s characters aren’t all angels (God forbid). O’Connor, though a Christian, wasn’t afraid to show things as they are and as she saw them, regardless of how “immoral” or “shocking” it might have been to her audience. Why should a writer mar her or his characters just to be decent and destroy the underlying message? ( ) I'm giving this five stars not because it's without flaws, but because there just isn't a bad story in this collection. Just under twenty years of work in this volume, and it's just--extraordinary. My current favorite might be "Good Country People" in large part because of how unusual it is in her oeuvre to write a character like Hulga, and how skillfully she does it. ContainsA Good Man is Hard to Find [short story] by Flannery O'Connor (indirect) The River by Flannery O'Connor (indirect) The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Flannery O'Connor (indirect) A Temple of the Holy Ghost by Flannery O'Connor (indirect) Good Country People by Flannery O'Connor (indirect) The Displaced Person by Flannery O'Connor (indirect) A Circle in the Fire by Flannery O'Connor (indirect) Has as a student's study guideAwardsNotable Lists
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