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Flannery : a life of Flannery O'Connor / Brad Gooch

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Gooch, Brad, , 1952-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Little, Brown and Co. , 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 448 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780316000666

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DDC classification:

92 OCO

LOC classification:

PS3565.C57 Z6795 2009

Summary: Flannery O'Connor felt that her life wasn't interesting enough for a biography. Gooch (English, William Paterson University, NJ) begs to differ. Although O'Connor spent most of her life, apart from schooling, in Georgia, living with a mother who didn't appreciate her writing and suffering from lupus, she managed to create worlds from chance meetings and minor events. Gooch uses the image of the chicken that O'Connor taught to walk backwards as the thread through the author's stories and her own life. He also treats her unwavering Catholicism as a factor, but not the only one, in O'Connor's make up. Her literary relationship with that other devout heretic, Thomas Merton, is an example of this. Gooch has written an honest portrayal of a writer's life, one that well might have pleased and amused its subject.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-435) and index.

Flannery O'Connor felt that her life wasn't interesting enough for a biography. Gooch (English, William Paterson University, NJ) begs to differ. Although O'Connor spent most of her life, apart from schooling, in Georgia, living with a mother who didn't appreciate her writing and suffering from lupus, she managed to create worlds from chance meetings and minor events. Gooch uses the image of the chicken that O'Connor taught to walk backwards as the thread through the author's stories and her own life. He also treats her unwavering Catholicism as a factor, but not the only one, in O'Connor's make up. Her literary relationship with that other devout heretic, Thomas Merton, is an example of this. Gooch has written an honest portrayal of a writer's life, one that well might have pleased and amused its subject.

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