Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor

What Gooch gives us is, as his title implies, just Flannery, an O'Connor without the mystique that troubles her social critics and entrances her religious readers, human in the softest sense, regular in the fullest sense, an O'Connor for the rest of us, the quiet, perhaps a little odd, but...

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Published in:South Central Review 2009, Vol.26 (3), p.147-149
Main Author: Daniel, Scott
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Colleges & universities
Dairy farms
Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns) (1888-1965)
Fiction
Gooch, Brad
Lupus
O Connor, Flannery (1925-1964)
Reviews
Rheumatoid arthritis
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Summary:What Gooch gives us is, as his title implies, just Flannery, an O'Connor without the mystique that troubles her social critics and entrances her religious readers, human in the softest sense, regular in the fullest sense, an O'Connor for the rest of us, the quiet, perhaps a little odd, but generally affable southern girl who wrote those amazing stories. In telling the story of the author's life, from her childhood in Savannah, to her coming of age during World War II as the editor of and cartoonist for the Colonnade at Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville, to her apprenticeship in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop under Paul Engle, to her eventful stay at Yaddo, an artists' colony in New York, to her diagnosis with lupus and return to her mother's dairy farm for the final and most productive writing years of her life, Gooch gives each story a place if not a purpose.
ISSN:0743-6831
1549-3377
1549-3377
0038-321X
DOI:10.1353/scr.0.0053