Back Bay Books
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
Key Metrics
- Brad Gooch
- Back Bay Books
- Paperback
- 9780316018999
- 8.2 X 5.4 X 1.3 inches
- 1.25 pounds
- Biography & Autobiography > Literary Figures
- English
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Praise for Flannery:
Flannery O'Connor, one of the best American writers of short fiction, has found her ideal biographer in Brad Gooch. With elegance and fairness, Gooch deals with the sensitive areas of race and religion in O'Connor's life. He also takes us back to those heady days after the war when O'Connor studied creative writing at Iowa. There is much that is new in this book, but, more important, everything is presented in a strong, clear light.-Edmund White
This splendid biography gives us no saint or martyr but the story of a gifted and complicated woman, bent on making the best of the difficult hand fate has dealt her, whether it is with grit and humor or with an abiding desire to make palpable to readers the terrible mystery of God's grace.-Frances Kiernan, author of Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy
A good biographer is hard to find. Brad Gooch is not merely good-he is extraordinary. Blessed with the eye and ear of a novelist, he has composed the life that admirers of the fierce and hilarious Georgia genius have long been hoping for.-Joel Conarroe, President Emeritus, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
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