{"product_id":"the-world-of-flannery-oconnor-paperback","title":"The World of Flannery O'Connor - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJosephine Hendin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosephine Hendin's landmark study explores the fiction that erupted from Flannery O'Connor's enigmatic contradictions: she was the dutiful daughter of a conservative Southern family, the uncompromising Roman Catholic, the stoic figure enduring a painful fatal illness, and the author of strange and violent tales that exploded all the virtues of heritage, obedience, and faith. The tension between those disparate selves drives the complexity of Flannery O'Connor's literary achievement into the center of American experience. While other critics have chosen to treat Flannery O'Connor as a traditional Southern or dogmatic Catholic writer, Hendin takes a perceptively fresh view of her work in the context of contemporary fiction. Hendin illuminates all her fiction, beginning with the early novels and ending with Everything that Rises Must Converge. Differentiating her from other Southern writers, Hendin shows how O'Connor created a unique art, remarkable for its portrait of the agony of American yearning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosephine Hendin is Professor of English at New York University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eVulnerable People: A View of American Fiction Since 1945, HeartBreakers: Women and Violence in American Culture and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and editor of the \u003ci\u003eThe Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e. Her novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Right Thing to Do\u003c\/i\u003e won an American Book Award. Her literary essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic, Harper's Magazine, American Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e and other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 194\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 29, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42714317029439,"sku":"9781606084656","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/c35edd622343ba34bd1cab2da82c065e.webp?v=1765067758","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/the-world-of-flannery-oconnor-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}