1988, ISBN: 9780940450370

[ED: Gebunden], [PU: The Library of America], In her short lifetime, Flannery O'Connor became one of the most distinctive American writers of the twentieth century. By birth a native of G… Más…

[ED: Gebunden], [PU: The Library of America], In her short lifetime, Flannery O'Connor became one of the most distinctive American writers of the twentieth century. By birth a native of Georgia and a Roman Catholic, O'Connor depicts, in all its comic and horrendous incongruity, the limits of worldly wisdom and the mysteries of divine grace in the "Christ-haunted" Protestant South. This Library of America collection, the most comprehensive ever published, contains all of her novels and short-story collections, as well as nine other stories, eight of her most important essays, and a selection of 259 witty, spirited, and revealing letters, twenty-one published here for the first time.Her fiction brilliantly explores the human obsession with seemingly banal things. It might be a new hat or clean hogs or, for Hazel Motes, hero of Wise Blood (1952), an automobile. "Nobody with a good car needs to be justified," Hazel assures himself while using its hood for a pulpit to preach his "Church Without Christ." As in O'Connor's subsequent..., DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, 1300, [GW: 801g], Banküberweisung, PayPal, [CT: Sonstiges / Sonstiges]<

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