Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964)
Autor(a) de Complete Stories
About the Author
(eng) There are two different versions of the book Three (or 3). They both contain Wise Blood and The Violent Will Bear It Away, and some contain A Good Man Is Hard to Find while others contain Everything That Rises Must Converge. Please be conscious of this difference when adding or combining works. If you own an edition of Three, please make sure it is combined with the correct work, and please do not combine the two separate works entitled Three (or 3).
Obras por Flannery O'Connor
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- O'Connor, Mary Flannery
- Data de nascimento
- 1925-03-25
- Data de falecimento
- 1964-08-03
- Localização do túmulo
- Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Savannah, Georgia, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
- Causa da morte
- complications of lupus
- Locais de residência
- Savannah, Georgia, USA
Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
Redding, Connecticut, USA
Iowa City, Iowa, USA - Educação
- University of Iowa (MFA|1947)
Georgia State College for Women (BA|1945)
Peabody Laboratory School - Ocupações
- novelist
essayist
reviewer - Relações
- Lytle, Andrew (teacher)
- Organizações
- Yaddo
Iowa Writers' Workshop - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Georgia Women of Achievement (1992)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1957)
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
National Book Award for Fiction (1972) - Nota de desambiguação
- There are two different versions of the book Three (or 3). They both contain Wise Blood and The Violent Will Bear It Away, and some contain A Good Man Is Hard to Find while others contain Everything That Rises Must Converge. Please be conscious of this difference when adding or combining works. If you own an edition of Three, please make sure it is combined with the correct work, and please do not combine the two separate works entitled Three (or 3).
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 180
- Also by
- 79
- Membros
- 25,514
- Popularidade
- #820
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 441
- ISBN
- 298
- Línguas
- 19
- Marcado como favorito
- 332
- Acerca
- 2
- Pedras de toque
- 891
3.5***
I’ve been meaning to read O’Connor for quite some time, and a challenge to read a book published the year I was fifteen, led me to this collection of short stories published posthumously, after O’Connor died at age 39 from complications of lupus.
I like Southern literature, and particularly Southern Gothic literature. The dark themes explored in such works intrigue and interest me. O’Connor excelled at this.
She gives us characters with flaws (both obvious and slightly hidden) and forces them to interact with others frequently against a backdrop of racial tension. (In this collection, the title story Everything that Rises Must Converge and the final one Judgment Day focus on the changing perceptions in 1950s-1960s America.) O’Connor also frequently includes religion, and her characters sometimes show a change in their religious adherence. While her characters may be blind to their (and others’) faults, the reader has a clear view.
There are occasional bits of … well, not exactly “humor” but lighter observations which lessen the tension and give the reader a short break from the frequently bleak story.
The audiobook features a quartet of talented voice artists. Unfortunately, I cannot clearly tell which person narrated which story, other than the men taking on those stories that primarily featured a male point of view; while the women voiced the tales with a female point of view.… (mais)