Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor (repost)
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor By Brad Gooch
Publisher: Back Bay Books 2010 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 0316018996 | EPUB | 0.5 MB
Publisher: Back Bay Books 2010 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 0316018996 | EPUB | 0.5 MB
Gooch (City Poet:The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara) offers a surprisingly bloodless biography of Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964), who, despite the author's diligent scholarship, remains enigmatic. She emerges only in her excerpted letters, speeches and fiction, where she is as sharp-tongued, censorious, piteously observant and mordantly funny as her beloved short stories. There is little genuinely interesting new material, but there are small gems—the full story of O'Connor's friendship with the mysterious A. of her letters, for instance.