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11%OFFRichard Giannone - Flannery O'Connor and the Mystery of Love - 9780823219117 - V9780823219117
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Flannery O'Connor and the Mystery of Love

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Description for Flannery O'Connor and the Mystery of Love paperback. This study interprets Flannery O'Connor's fiction on its own terms. By stepping back from prevailing controversies, the author turns to the short stories and novels themselves and forms an impression of them while seeking the answers to such questions as they necessarily suggest themselves. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.

Flannery O'Connor and the Mystery of Love interprets O'Connor's perplexing fiction on its own terms. By stepping back from prevailing controversies, this seminal study takes the pleasure of turning to the short stories and novels themselves and forming an impression of them while seeking the answers to such questions as they necessarily suggest themselves. This goal inevitably entails a consideration of the hardness and violence that are the hallmark of O'Connor's genius. That severity for Giannone is inseparable from O'Connor's recounting, in her words, "the action of grace." God's bounty can leave its beneficiaries with some very real handicaps. Grace ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823219117
SKU
V9780823219117
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99-50

About Richard Giannone
Richard Giannone is Professor Emeritus at Fordham University. He is the author of four books, including Flannery O’Connor: Hermit Novelist.

Reviews for Flannery O'Connor and the Mystery of Love
"Giannone's insightful study, written in clear and elegant prose, would be useful to the general reader of O'Connor as well as to the scholar." -Choice

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