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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories » (1st Harvest/HBJ ed)
Authors: Flannery O'Connor
ISBN-13: 9780156364652, ISBN-10: 0156364654
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: August 1977
Edition: 1st Harvest/HBJ ed
Author Biography: Flannery O'Connor
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.
Book Synopsis
The collection that established O’Connor’s reputation as one of the american masters of the short story. The volume contains the celebrated title story, a tale of the murderous fugitive The Misfit, as well as “The Displaced Person” and eight other stories.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 3 | |
| Chronology | 27 | |
| A Good Man Is Hard to Find | 31 | |
| Background to the Story | ||
| On Her Own Work | 55 | |
| Letter to John Hawkes and Letter to a Professor of English | 61 | |
| Critical Essays | ||
| A Good Source Is Not So Hard to Find | 67 | |
| Reading the Map in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" | 73 | |
| Advertisements for Grace: Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" | 83 | |
| A Dissenting Opinion of Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" | 95 | |
| Everything Off Balance: Protestant Election in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" | 103 | |
| Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" and G. K. Chesterton's Manalive | 113 | |
| A Good Man's Predicament | 119 | |
| "The Meanest of Them Sparkled": Beauty and Landscape in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction | 127 | |
| Cats, Crime, and Punishment: The Mikado's Pitti-Sing in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" | 139 | |
| Deconstructed Meaning in ["A Good Man Is Hard to Find"] | 165 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 175 | |
| Permissions | 179 |
Subjects
Fiction Books & Literature
Fiction Subjects Short Story Collections (Single Author)
Fiction Books & Literature Short Stories American Short Stories - 20th Century
Fiction Subjects Short Story Collections (Single Author)Fiction Books & Literature
Short Stories American Short Stories - 20th Century
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