A Good Man Is Hard To Find: Stories
Flannery O'Connor is one of the great American short story writers whose subjects are the duality of the Deep South and her Catholic faith. O'Connor once referred to A Good Man is Hard to Find as 'nine stories about original sin'. Combining a deft comic sensibility with the grotesque and tragic,...
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Flannery O'Connor is one of the great American short story writers whose subjects are the duality of the Deep South and her Catholic faith. O'Connor once referred to A Good Man is Hard to Find as 'nine stories about original sin'. Combining a deft comic sensibility with the grotesque and tragic, they are stories in which characters lead lives of brutal poverty and fierce cruelty; where ordinary events can tip over into misfortune, violence and despair.
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ISBN:
9780704346963 (0704346966)
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Southern,
Short Stories,
Gothic,
Southern Gothic
A Good Man is Hard to Find: A family strikes out on a road trip to Florida, knowing that an escaped convict is on the loose...What a kick ass tale to open the collection. Flannery O'Connor had to be an influence of sorts on Jim Thompson, as this reads a lot like a condensed version of one of his sto...
Kindred's Reading Challenge: #2 A short story collection
Short story collections are always a little tricky. I've read some good collections with many great stories that took my breath away, but not without having to muddle through other stories that barely kept my attention. I thought turning to one of the masters of the short form might help (and perhap...
Mind blowing. Full review to follow.
I only read A Good Man Is Hard To Find for my lit class, but i wasn't expecting much but what i got was a sad tale about a family vacation gone wrong and when i finished it all i could say was "God that was depressing"
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