Good Country People and Other Stories: selected and introduced by Lauren Groff
Product Details
ISBN: 9780571396337
Author: O'CONNOR, FLANNERY
Pages: 304
The American South
A turbulent world, fraught with the Civil Rights struggle and toxic religious tensions. Against the backdrop of mountainous sunsets and backwater shacks, deserted highways, and small-town gas stations, people forge their own lives.
Troubled children, gangsters, hypocrites, misfits, and outcasts
These are characters marked by grotesque flaws, darkly humorous and oddly beautiful. Their complex humanity is revealed in apocalyptic moments of Gothic horror, absurdity, and violence that transform all who witness them—and us, too—as we realise that nothing in our moral universe is black and white.
About Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor is the supreme tragicomic chronicler of these bodies and souls. Her classic stories are infused with the dazzling force of prophecy, marking her as one of the century's most visionary writers.