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100 1 $aCash, Jean W.,$d1938-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002022509
245 10 $aFlannery O'Connor :$ba life /$cJean W. Cash.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aKnoxville :$bUniversity of Tennessee Press,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $axviii, 356 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [334]-344) and index.
505 0 $aSavannah, 1925-1938 -- Milledgeville, 1938-1942 -- Milledgeville, 1942-1945 -- Iowa, 1945-1948 -- Yaddo, New York City, and Connecticut, 1948-1950 -- Return to Milledgeville and a pivotal decision -- Regina and Flannery -- Milledgeville, early friendships -- Later friendships -- Last friendships -- Lectures and travel outside Milledgeville, 1955-1959 -- Lectures, 1960-1963 -- Reviews, 1956-1964 -- Illness, death, and legacy.
520 1 $a"Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) ranks among the foremost writers of fiction in American literature. Her short stories, in particular, are considered models of the form. Born in Savannah, O'Connor spent most of her life in Georgia and infused her work with Southern characters, themes, and landscapes. A devout Catholic, she addressed the mystery of God's grace in everyday life, often amid the grotesque, the shocking, and the violent. In this first full-length biography of the writer, Jean W.
520 8 $aCash draws upon extensive interviews with O'Connor's friends, relatives, teachers, and colleagues as well as on the writer's voluminous correspondence to provide a sensitive, balanced portrait of a fascinating woman.".
520 8 $a"As Cash demonstrates, O'Connor's sheltered childhood, extraordinary intellect, spiritual certainty, and unique personality - including a wry sense of humor - combined not only to make her something of an outsider but also to foster her literary genius. As a child, her favorite activities were reading, writing stories, and drawing. Perhaps more unusual was her childhood feat of teaching a bantam rooster to walk backwards.
520 8 $aHer passion for exotic fowl later found expression in the peacock symbolism in her fiction."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aO'Connor, Flannery.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79119229
650 0 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100576
651 0 $aMilledgeville (Ga.)$vBiography.
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