Good Country People and Other Stories
eBook - ePub

Good Country People and Other Stories

selected and introduced by Lauren Groff

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Good Country People and Other Stories

selected and introduced by Lauren Groff

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9780571396344
Subtopic
Classics

Table of contents

  1. Landing Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword by Lauren Groff
  5. A Good Man Is Hard to Find
  6. The River
  7. The Life You Save May Be Your Own
  8. A Stroke of Good Fortune
  9. A Temple of the Holy Ghost
  10. A Circle in the Fire
  11. A Late Encounter with the Enemy
  12. Good Country People
  13. The Displaced Person
  14. Parker’s Back
  15. Everything That Rises Must Converge
  16. Revelation
  17. Notes
  18. About the Author
  19. By the Same Author
  20. Copyright