A Good Man Is Hard To Find And Other Stories
Author: Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor was a true Southern original. The grotesque and the ordinary intrigued her; the absurd delighted her. She saw revelation and apocalypse everywhere. Time magazine described her work as “highly unladylike…[with] a brutal irony, a slam-bam humor, and a style of writing as balefully direct as a death sentence.” All those qualities are on full display in the….Read More
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