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The Habit of Being
Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Fitzgerald, Sally (EDT)
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BOOK SUMMARY
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award

"I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her letters . . . There she stands, a phoenix risen from her o

BOOK SYNOPSIS

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award

"I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her letters . . . There she stands, a phoenix risen from her own words: calm, slow, funny, courteous, both modest and very sure of herself, intense, sharply penetrating, devout but never pietistic, downright, occasionally fierce, and honest in a way that restores honor to the word."—Sally Fitzgerald, from the Introduction

AUTHOR BIO
Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1925. When she died at the age of thirty-nine, America lost one of its most gifted writers at the height of her powers.


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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0374521042
ISBN(13-digit): 9780374521042
Copyright: 1988
Dewey Decimal: 809
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
Paper Weight (lb): 1.9



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