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008			100306s2009 nyuaf b 001 0 eng
010			_a2008028504
020			_a9780316000666
050	0	0	_aPS3565.C57 _bZ6795 2009
082	0	0	_a92 OCO
100	1		_aGooch, Brad _d, 1952-
245	1	0	_aFlannery _b: a life of Flannery O'Connor _c/ Brad Gooch
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Little, Brown and Co. _c, 2009.
300			_a448 p., [16] p. of plates _b: ill. _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [387]-435) and index.
520			_aFlannery 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.
600	1	0	_aO'Connor, Flannery
650		4	_aAuthors, American _y-20th century _v--Biography
651		0	_aMilledgeville (Ga.) _v--Biography
942			_cMO
999			_c262145 _d262145