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A Good Man is Hard to Find: Ten Memorable Stories
A Good Man is Hard to Find Ten Memorable Stories Author:Flannery O'Connor The collection that established O'Connor's reputation as one of the American masters of the short story. The volume contains the celebrated title story, a tale of the murderous fugitive The Misfit, as well as The Displaced Person and eight other stories. — "It would be hard to exaggerate the competence with which Miss O'Co... more »nnor goes about the telling of these stories. Each of them is hard and sharp and dramatic. And each of them leaves, as it is meant to do, a nasty taste in the reader's mouth. This nastiness, however, is not gratuitous on the author's part. On the contrary, it is clear that Miss O'Connor regards human life as mean and brutish and that she makes this judgment from an orthodox Christian point of view. But one does not have to believe in original sin to be affected by the stories. Miss O'Connor's vision of life is presented with such conviction and such intensity that, for the moment at any rate, it authenticates itself." Granville Hicks/The New Leader
"Miss O'Connor's works, like Maupassant's, are characterized by precision, density and an almost alarming circumspection. There are few landscapes in her stories. Her characters seem to move in the hard, white glare of a searchlight --,or perhaps it is more as if the author viewed her subjects through the knot-hole in a fence or wall... Miss O'Connor, for all her preoccupation with the visible scene, is also fiercely concerned with moral, even theological, problems. In these stories the rural South is, for the first time, viewed by a writer whose orthodoxy matches her talent. The results are revolutionary." New York Times Book Review« less