A Good Man is Hard to Find: Stories
Author: Flannery O’Connor
Combining a deft comic sensibility with the grotesque and tragic, these are “nine stories about original sin” in which characters lead lives of brutal poverty and fierce cruelty; where ordinary events can tip over into misfortune, violence and despair…..Read More
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