Author : Angela Alaimo O'Donnell
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814637012
Flannery O'Connor by Angela Alaimo O'Donnell Pdf
Flannery O'Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith tells the remarkable story of the gifted young woman who set out from her native Georgia to develop her talents as a writer and eventually succeeded in becoming one of the most accomplished fiction writers of the twentieth century. In this insightful new biography, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell depicts O'Connor's passionate devotion to her vocation, despite her crippling illness, the rich interior life she lived through her reading and correspondence, and the development of her deep and abiding faith in the face of her own impending mortality. O'Donnell's biography recounts the poignant story of America's preeminent Catholic writer and offers the reader a guide to her novels and stories so deeply informed by her Catholic faith.