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"To compare her with the great letter writers in our language may seem presumptuous and would have elicited from her one of her famous steely glances, but Byron, Keats, Lawrence, Wilde and Joyce come irresistibly to mind: correspondence that gleams with consciousness."
--The New York Times
"These hundreds of letters give O'Connor's tough, funny, careful personality to us more distinctly and movingly than any biography probably would... Remarkable and inspiring."
--Kirkus Reviews
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Flannery O'Connor's letters reveal a personality continually ascending in its aliveness, in strength, humor, and generosity. "These letters are a treasure . . . Funny, relentless, deeply touching, they reveal the mind of one of our least personal writers."--Mary Gordon, Saturday Review.
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Most of the readers of these letters are probably familiar with the simpler facts Flannery O'Connor's life: that she was born in Savannah, Georgia, on March 25, 1925, the only only child of Edward Francis O'Connor and Regina Cline O'Connor; that she moved to Milledgeville, Georgia, her mother's birthplace, when she was twelve years old, after her father had fallen gravely ill. Read the first page
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Most of the readers of these letters are probably familiar with the simpler facts Flannery O'Connor's life: that she was born in Savannah, Georgia, on March 25, 1925, the only only child of Edward Francis O'Connor and Regina Cline O'Connor; that she moved to Milledgeville, Georgia, her mother's birthplace, when she was twelve years old, after her father had fallen gravely ill. Read the first page
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Her Own Words--The Best Words,
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This review is from: Habit Of Being (Paperback)
THE HABIT OF BEING is required reading for any Flannery O'Connor fan. Nobody can explain Flannery like Flannery. Through her letters the reader has an immediate connection to the writer and the woman, and that connection made me regret even more that I did not know her personally. Sally Fitzgerald includes letters that show Flannery's human side, her cranky side, her funny side, even her arrogant side. I read the letters before the identity of A was revealed, and I was intrigued. I went back and read them again after that identify was made public, and I'm even more intrigued. To understand fully what Flannery was attempting in her stories, one needs to read the letters. To understand fully what she was attempting in her life, one needs to read the letters. No satisfactory biography has been written about Flannery O'Connor, but I'm not sure that one is necessary when we have at least a start at an autobiography with THE HABIT OF BEING.
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Dear Reader,
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This review is from: Habit Of Being (Paperback)
Flannery wrote under a death sentence, and it seems inescapable that she expected - or at least hoped and imagined - that these letters would be published. Thus, they are written to you, dear reader, as much as to anyone. And they are superb. This is Flannery at her best. If you, like so many, are enthralled by her works, you will find this book essential. If you suspect that some of the self-appointed and so-called experts on her work could benefit from a strong laxative and are curious to find out what she herself really had in mind in her various stories, you will find this book immensely rewarding. And if you imagine that you might enjoy the musings of a soul whose wisdom, character, and intellect were each exceptional, you will find this book compelling.
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Unfolding the Beauty of Flannery O'Connor,
By "blackstonejch" (Vienna, Va. USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Habit Of Being (Paperback)
Flannery is a beautiful person; reading these letters you feel like you are conversing with a personal friend and hope you get the chance to meet her; you can't help but wish you could have had the chance to correspond with her.After years of loving her fiction, I found that, in these letters, her fiction and her soul unveil their beauty --- just like her beloved peafowl.
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