Flannery

Author : Lisa Moore
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781554988730

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Flannery by Lisa Moore Pdf

A spellbinding story about chasing love, fighting family, losing friends and starting all over again, from the internationally acclaimed Lisa Moore. Sixteen-year-old Flannery Malone has it bad. She’s been in love with Tyrone O’Rourke since the days she still believed in Santa Claus. But Tyrone has grown from a dorky kid into an outlaw graffiti artist, the rebel-with-a-cause of Flannery’s dreams, literally too cool for school. Which is a problem, since he and Flannery are partners for the entrepreneurship class that she needs to graduate. And Tyrone’s vanishing act may have darker causes than she realizes. Tyrone isn’t Flannery’s only problem. Her mother, Miranda, can’t pay the heating bills, let alone buy Flannery’s biology book. Her little brother, Felix, is careening out of control. And her best-friend-since-forever, Amber, has fallen for a guy who is making her forget all about the things she’s always cared most about — Flannery included — leading Amber down a dark and dangerous path of her own. When Flannery decides to make a love potion for her entrepreneurship project, rumors that it actually works go viral, and she suddenly has a hot commodity on her hands. But a series of shattering events makes her realize that real-life love is far more potent — and potentially damaging — than any fairy-tale prescription. Written in Lisa Moore’s exuberant and inimitable style, Flannery is by turns heartbreaking and hilarious, empowering and harrowing — often all on the same page. It is a novel whose spell no reader will be able to resist.

Author : Brad Gooch
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316040655

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Flannery by Brad Gooch Pdf

The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in 1952. Her fierce, sometimes comic novels and stories reflected the darkly funny, vibrant, and theologically sophisticated woman who wrote them. Brad Gooch brings to life O'Connor's significant friendships -- with Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, Walker Percy, and James Dickey among others -- and her deeply felt convictions, as expressed in her communications with Thomas Merton, Elizabeth Bishop, and Betty Hester. Hester was famously known as "A" in O'Connor's collected letters, The Habit of Being, and a large cache of correspondence to her from O'Connor was made available to scholars, including Brad Gooch, in 2006. O'Connor's capacity to live fully -- despite the chronic disease that eventually confined her to her mother's farm in Georgia -- is illuminated in this engaging and authoritative biography. Praise for Flannery: "Flannery O'Connor, one of the best American writers of short fiction, has found her ideal biographer in Brad Gooch. With elegance and fairness, Gooch deals with the sensitive areas of race and religion in O'Connor's life. He also takes us back to those heady days after the war when O'Connor studied creative writing at Iowa. There is much that is new in this book, but, more important, everything is presented in a strong, clear light."-Edmund White "This splendid biography gives us no saint or martyr but the story of a gifted and complicated woman, bent on making the best of the difficult hand fate has dealt her, whether it is with grit and humor or with an abiding desire to make palpable to readers the terrible mystery of God's grace."-Frances Kiernan, author of Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy "A good biographer is hard to find. Brad Gooch is not merely good-he is extraordinary. Blessed with the eye and ear of a novelist, he has composed the life that admirers of the fierce and hilarious Georgia genius have long been hoping for."-Joel Conarroe, President Emeritus, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation

Author : R. Neil Scott
Publisher : Timberlane Books
Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0971542805

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Flannery O'Connor by R. Neil Scott Pdf

Author : Amy Alznauer
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781592703432

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The Strange Birds of Flannery O'Connor by Amy Alznauer Pdf

“I intend to stand firm and let the peacocks multiply, for I am sure that, in the end, the last word will be theirs.” —Flannery O’Connor When she was young, the writer Flannery O’Connor was captivated by the chickens in her yard. She’d watch their wings flap, their beaks peck, and their eyes glint. At age six, her life was forever changed when she and a chicken she had been training to walk forwards and backwards were featured in the Pathé News, and she realized that people want to see what is odd and strange in life. But while she loved birds of all varieties and kept several species around the house, it was the peacocks that came to dominate her life. Written by Amy Alznauer with devotional attention to all things odd and illustrated in radiant paint by Ping Zhu, The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor explores the beginnings of one author’s lifelong obsession. Amy Alznauer lives in Chicago with her husband, two children, a dog, a parakeet, sometimes chicks, and a part-time fish, but, as of today, no elephants or peacocks. Ping Zhu is a freelance illustrator who has worked with clients big and small, won some awards based on the work she did for aforementioned clients, attracted new clients with shiny awards, and is hoping to maintain her livelihood in Brooklyn by repeating that cycle.

Author : Connie Ann Kirk
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Reference (Philosophy) in literature
ISBN : 9781438108469

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Critical Companion to Flannery O'Connor by Connie Ann Kirk Pdf

Examines the life and writings of Flannery O'Connor, including detailed synopses of her works, explanations of literary terms, biographies of friends and family, and social and historical influences.

Author : Alison Arant,Jordan Cofer
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496831835

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Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor by Alison Arant,Jordan Cofer Pdf

Contributions by Lindsay Alexander, Alison Arant, Alicia Matheny Beeson, Eric Bennett, Gina Caison, Jordan Cofer, Doug Davis, Doreen Fowler, Marshall Bruce Gentry, Bruce Henderson, Monica C. Miller, William Murray, Carol Shloss, Alison Staudinger, and Rachel Watson The National Endowment for the Humanities has funded two Summer Institutes titled "Reconsidering Flannery O’Connor," which invited scholars to rethink approaches to Flannery O’Connor’s work. Drawing largely on research that started as part of the 2014 NEH Institute, this collection shares its title and its mission. Featuring fourteen new essays, Reconsidering Flannery O’Connor disrupts a few commonplace assumptions of O’Connor studies while also circling back to some old questions that are due for new attention. The volume opens with “New Methodologies,” which features theoretical approaches not typically associated with O’Connor’s fiction in order to gain new insights into her work. The second section, “New Contexts,” stretches expectations on literary genre, on popular archetypes in her stories, and on how we should interpret her work. The third section, lovingly called “Strange Bedfellows,” puts O’Connor in dialogue with overlooked or neglected conversation partners, while the final section, “O’Connor’s Legacy,” reconsiders her personal views on creative writing and her wishes regarding the handling of her estate upon death. With these final essays, the collection comes full circle, attesting to the hazards that come from overly relying on O’Connor’s interpretation of her own work but also from ignoring her views and desires. Through these reconsiderations, some of which draw on previously unpublished archival material, the collection attests to and promotes the vitality of scholarship on Flannery O’Connor.

Author : Mary Carpenter
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780820360492

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Flannery O'Connor by Mary Carpenter Pdf

In her biography of writer Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964, née Mary Flannery), Mary Carpenter introduces young readers to one of the most renowned American authors. With an accessible style of writing, Flannery O’Connor gives younger readers an overview of O’Connor’s life and examines the influences, such as her family, region, and education, that helped her become one of the most respected fiction writers of the twentieth century. In a frank but age-appropriate manner, Carpenter discusses the writer’s rural southern upbringing, her relationship to race, her chronic lupus, and her Catholic faith. The book will appeal to younger (nine- to ten-year-old) readers with sophisticated interests along with, and maybe more importantly, those older middle-school students who are not yet skillful readers and who thus often search with difficulty for interesting topics presented in books of a shorter length than most written for that age group. Mary Flannery’s life is inspirational. Her childhood in Savannah, Georgia, was both difficult and privileged. During the Great Depression, her father had to leave home to find work and then became very ill. Later in small-town Milledgeville, Georgia, Flannery lived with her mother and an extended family of strong women. Flannery’s ability to know her mind at an early age helped her build an artistic reputation starting in high school. Through her fiction, she went on to become a role model for unconventional girls everywhere and for anyone who dreams of becoming a writer.

Author : Peter A. Flannery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 095709194X

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Battle Mage by Peter A. Flannery Pdf

Author : Jessica Hooten Wilson
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781493445028

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Flannery O'Connor's Why Do the Heathen Rage? by Jessica Hooten Wilson Pdf

When celebrated American novelist and short story writer Flannery O'Connor died at the age of 39 in 1964, she left behind an unfinished third novel titled Why Do the Heathen Rage? Scholarly experts uncovered and studied the material, deeming it unpublishable. It stayed that way for 40 years. Until now. For the past 10-plus years, award-winning author Jessica Hooten Wilson has explored the 378 pages of typed and handwritten material of the novel--transcribing pages, organizing them into scenes, and compiling everything to provide a glimpse into what O'Connor might have planned to publish. This book is the result of Hooten Wilson's work. In it, she introduces O'Connor's novel to the public for the first time and imagines themes and directions O'Connor's work might have taken. Including illustrations and an afterword from noted artist Steve Prince (One Fish Studio), the book unveils scenes that are both funny and thought-provoking, ultimately revealing that we have much to learn from what O'Connor left behind.

Author : Ted R. Spivey
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 086554557X

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Flannery O'Connor by Ted R. Spivey Pdf

This volume draws on the author's six-year correspondence with Flannery O'Connor in this evaluation of the Southern writer as an intellectual and as a student of the Western tradition in literature and religion. He emphasizes her deep connection with writers such as Joyce and Bernanos in the context of the Modernist tradition, and discusses how her study of these religious writers influenced her visions of world apocalypse and religious community. The author studies the revealed tensions and interrelationships of O'Connor's "secular intellect" versus her "religious intellect."

Author : George Kilcourse
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Catholics
ISBN : 9781616433130

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Flannery O'Connor's Religious Imagination by George Kilcourse Pdf

Author : Craig Amason
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820327638

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A Literary Guide to Flannery O'Connor's Georgia by Craig Amason Pdf

Flannery OConnor spent most of her life in Georgia. Most of OConnors fiction is also set in the state, in locales rich in symbolism and the ambience of southern rural and small-town life. Filled with contemporary and historical photos, this guide introduces OConnors readers to the places where the great writer lived and worked--places whose features and details sometimes found their way into her fiction. The guide describes such places as OConnors childhood home in Savannah; the Governors Mansion, Cline House, and Central State Hospital in Milledgeville; and the family farm, Andalusia. Numerous facts about OConnor and the people closest to her are woven into the site descriptions, as are critical observations about her Catholicism, her acute sense of character and place, and her fierce sense of humor. Features include: More than fifty full-color contemporary photographs and numerous black-and-white historical images An overview and chronology of OConnors life and legacy Maps to sites in Savannah, Milledgeville, and the house and grounds at Andalusia Discussions of OConnors life and writings Listing of OConnors works and suggestions for further reading All author royalties from sales of the guide will be donated to the Flannery OConnor-Andalusia Foundation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820346519

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Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia by Anonim Pdf

Succinct text from photographer Barbara McKenzie and a foreword by Robert Coles provide context for this moving collection of photographs of the middle Georgia Flannery O’Connor depicted in her fiction. Whether capturing highway signs proclaiming Christ or a restaurant five hundred yards up the road, the frenzied motions of persons seized by the Holy Spirit, or quiet folks, black and white, sitting on benches in town squares, these photographs portray strikingly and sympathetically the world O’Connor wrote about in her remarkable stories.

Author : Ellis Parker Butler
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066164119

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Mike Flannery On Duty and Off by Ellis Parker Butler Pdf

"Mike Flannery On Duty and Off" is a collection of short stories about the incredible adventures of the eponymous protagonist. The book contains three stories: "Just Like A Cat," "The Three Hundred," and "Fleas Will Be Fleas." Each of the stories is filled with the author's subtle sense of humor, which makes the book an easy and entertaining read.

Author : Flannery O'Connor
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0878052658

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Conversations with Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor Pdf

Interviews with the author of Wise Blood, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, and Everything That Rises Must Converge