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Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works: Wise In her short lifetime, Flannery O’Connor became one of the most distinctive American writers of the twentieth century. By birth a native of Georgia and a Roman Catholic, O’Connor depicts, in all its comic and horrendous incongruity, the limits of worldly wisdom and the mysteries of divine grace in the “Christ-haunted” Protestant South.
This Library of America O'Connor, a Georgia native by birth and a Roman Catholic, illustrates the limits of human knowledge and the mysteries of divine grace amid the "Christ-haunted" Protestant South in all its comical and horrifying incongruity.
The collection explores deep Flannery O'Connor discovered initimations of divinity not in the lives of saints, but in wickedly funny tales of human misfits who, through peculiar and often violent turns of events, run up against the limits of worldly wisdom. Her complete works are presented here for the first time in a single volume.
A GREAT RARE HARDCOVER BOOK! BY O'Connor, Flannery, -- Correspondance Publisher New York, NY: Library of America: Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English.
Flannery O'Connor, a unique and important figure in the Southern literary tradition, was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. This volume, containing her two novels, short stories, essays and letters, is the only complete collection of her works. 
Flannery O’Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, on March 25, , and was raised as a devout Roman Catholic in Milledgeville, Georgia. Upon graduation from the Graduate Program of the Women’s College of Georgia, O’Connor attended the writing program at the State University of Iowa, receiving her MFA in