With elegance and fairness, gooch deals with the sensitive areas of race and religion in oconnors life. Her fierce, sometimes comic novels and stories reflected the darkly funny, vibrant, and theologically sophisticated woman who wrote them. Flannery oconnor project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Flannery a life of flannery oconnor brad gooch little, brown. A life of flannery oconnor by brad gooch goodreads.
Flannery oconnor, as brad gooch s new biography makes clear, was one of a kind. His descriptions of depression era georgia remind us just how far the rural south, where she grew up, was from the american mainstream, and how rich the minefield for eccentric characters. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading flannery. Flannery by brad goochsarah churchwell enjoys the biography of a great us writer who burned bright, but died too young. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. David bourget western ontario david chalmers anu, nyu area editors. Acclaimed author and catholic thinker flannery oconnor 19251964. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
The landscape of american literature was fundamentally changed when flannery oconnor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, wise blood, in 1952. Gooch s biography of flannery oconnor is a beautiful testament to one of the greatest shortstory writers of the 20th century. A life of flannery oconnor kindle edition by gooch, brad. Flannery ebook by brad gooch 9780316040655 rakuten kobo. Far from simply writing the story of oconnors life, gooch makes the effort to connect her characters and motifs to oconnors day to day experiences and relationships.
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