'Flannery O'Connor is my favourite American short story writer. These are proudly elegant stories of human stupidity, white privileges, rich with humour and what ails the human heart ' Claire Keegan
The American South. A turbulent world, fraught with the Civil Rights struggle and toxic religious tensions. Against the backdrop of mountainous sunsets and backwater shacks, deserted highways and small-town gas stations, people forge their own lives.
We encounter murderers, escaped convicts, dysfunctional families, conmen, fanatics, farmhands, Bible salesmen, troubled children, gangsters, hypocrites, misfits and outcasts. These are characters marked by grotesque flaws, darkly humorous and oddly beautiful. Their complex humanity is revealed in apocalyptic moments of Gothic horror, absurdity and violence that transform all who witness them - and us, too, as we realise that nothing in our moral universe is black and white.
Flannery O'Connor is the supreme tragicomic chronicler of these bodies and souls, her classic stories infused with the dazzling force of prophecy as one of the century's most visionary writers.
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Good Country People and Other Stories
'My favourite American short story writer' (Claire Keegan)
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eBook - ePub
Good Country People and Other Stories
'My favourite American short story writer' (Claire Keegan)
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ClassicsTable of contents
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword by Lauren Groff
- 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
- A Circle in the Fire
- A Late Encounter with the Enemy
- Good Country People
- The Displaced Person
- Parker’s Back
- Everything That Rises Must Converge
- Revelation
- Notes
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
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