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This now classic book revealed Flannery OConnor as one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation: the grandmother, in the title story, confronting the murderous Misfit, a neglected four-year-old boy looking for the Kingdom of Christ in the fast-flowing waters of the riv...

The complete collection of short stories from one of the most original writers of the 20th century, with some exclusive tales. 'A magnificent collection...' Hermione Lee, "Independent

Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's first novel, is the story of Hazel Motes who, released from the armed services, returns to the evangelical Deep South.

Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--"Everything That Rises Must Converge "and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." O'Connor published her first story, "The Geranium, " in...

Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque, each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written by no one else.

On receiving an early copy, Evelyn Waugh remarked 'If these stories are in fact the work of a young lady, they are indeed remarkable. 'She's horrifyingly funny . Her stories - her intelligence and passion - can restore reason to minds unhinged by our fame-obsessed, technology-obsessed culture.' Dean Koontz, New York Times

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Flannery OConnors haunting and classic first novel is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith. This tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, and wisdom gives us one of the most riveting characters in American fiction.

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award"I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her letters . . . There she stands, a phoenix risen from her own words: calm, slow, funny, courteous, both modest and very sure of herself, intense, sharply penetrating, devout but never pietistic, downright, occasionally fierce, and honest in a way that r...

Original publication and copyright date: 1955.

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 sho...

Wijs bloed vertelt het tragikomische verhaal van Hazel Motes, een 24-jarige veteraan die na de Tweede Wereldoorlog terugkeert naar het zuiden van de VS. De confrontatie met de lokale christelijke mores brengt hem ertoe zijn eigen kerk op te richten, de Kerk Zonder Christus. Hij predikt een waarheid die niet gezien mag worden: het niet-bestaan van God en Christus en de irrelevantie van christelijke kernthema's als zonde, vergeving en schuld. Al...

I would like to write a beautiful prayer, " writes the young Flannery O'Connor in this deeply spiritual journal, recently discovered among her papers in Georgia. "There is a whole sensible world around me that I should be able to turn to Your praise." Written between 1946 and 1947 while O'Connor was a student far from home at the University of Iowa, A Prayer Journal is a rare portal into the interior life of the great writer. Not only does it ...

Sapeva di avere la stoffa dei fanatici e dei pazzi, e di esser sfuggito al suo destino quasi con la sola forza di volontà. Si teneva ritto su una linea sottilissima, tra la pazzia e il vuoto". Una fede ossessiva, fanatica e violenta e una ragione arida e repressa, "spazio nudo e lindo come la cella di un manicomio", ecco la pazzia e il vuoto entro cui i tre personaggi di questo libro muovono passi estremi, inquieti, disperati. Un vecchio eremi...

Wise Blood, " Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. Focused on the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate fate, this tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdoms gives us one of the most riveting characters in twentieth-century American fiction.