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A Good Man is Hard to Find: Faber Stories

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title A Good Man is Hard to Find: Faber Stories
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Flannery O'Connor
SeriesFaber Stories
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:48
Dimensions(mm): Height 160,Width 111
Category/GenreShort stories
ISBN/Barcode 9780571351817
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
NZ Release Date 13 February 2023
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. The grandmother suggests they change course in order to avoid 'The Misfit', an escaped convict who's reportedly heading towards Florida. But when their car turns over in a ditch, who should they flag down for help but the very man whose picture they recognise from the paper ... Flannery O'Connor's famous fifties story evokes heat and dust, family and feuding, God and grace - and is utterly uncompromising in its brutality.

Author Biography

Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1925. She wrote two novels, Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960), and two story collections, A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955) and Everything That Rises Must Converge (1964). Her Complete Stories, published posthumously in 1972, won the National Book Award that year, and in a 2009 online poll it was voted as the best book to have won the award in the contest's 60-year history.