A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other ..., Flannery OConnor
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other ..., Flannery OConnor
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

Author: Flannery O'Connor

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/22/2010

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

This now classic book revealed Flannery OConnor as one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation: the grandmother, in the title story, confronting the murderous Misfit; a neglected fouryearold boy looking for the Kingdom of Christ in the fastflowing waters of the river; General Sash, about to meet the final enemy. Stories included are A Good Man Is Hard to Find, The River, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, A Stroke of Good Fortune, A Temple of the Holy Ghost, The Artificial Nigger, A Circle in the Fire, A Late Encounter with the Enemy, Good Country People and The Displaced Person.

About Flannery O'Connor

FLANNERY O’CONNOR (1925–1964) was born in Savannah, Georgia. She earned her MFA at the University of Iowa, but lived most of her life in the South, where she became an anomaly among post–World War II authors: a Roman Catholic woman whose stated purpose was to reveal the mystery of God’s grace in everyday life. Her work—novels, short stories, letters, and criticism—received a number of awards, including the National Book Award. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fabian on May 26, 2020

An exemplary short story collection & very likely at the zenith in most "all-time" lists. All 10 vignettes are blissfully cinematographic, spewing out image after retched image, illuminating lives filled with woe, woe, & more woe. In a place of stasis & violence. The setting is that of the ingloriou......more

Goodreads review by Riku on March 24, 2015

Exiled From Eden I don’t always have the aptitude and the patience (paradoxically) for short fiction, but O’Connor has a way of connecting all her stories by setting them in a landscape that refuses to leave you. The stories and the unease stay with you as you finish each grotesque piece, buildin......more

Goodreads review by Dave on June 02, 2024

A masterpiece collection of short stories published in 1953. Flannery O’Connor must have been a bizarre phenomenon at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, where I imagine mostly atheist urbane sophisticates shaped their literary fictions. O’Connor was not an atheist; quite the contrary--she was a devout and p......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on October 14, 2022

First things first, O’Connor did exactly what she intended to do here. It’s not a failure by any stretch (if, at times, close-cropped and uneven). Whatever she’s doing, cruel and unusual, she’s good at it. But ugh, it just happens to be the exact kind of thing that revolts something deep down in my......more

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