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A Good Man Is Hard to Find

And Other Stories

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This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation: the grandmother, in the title story, confronting the murderous Misfit; a neglected four-year-old boy looking for the Kingdom of Christ in the fast-flowing waters of the river; General Sash, about to meet the final enemy.

Stories include:

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find"

"The River"

"The Life You Save May Be Your Own"

"A Stroke of Good Fortune"

"A Temple of the Holy Ghost"

"The Artificial Nigger"

"A Circle in the Fire"

"A Late Encounter with the Enemy"

"Good Country People"

"The Displaced Person"

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND features some of Flannery O'Connor's best short stories. Often associated with the term Southern gothic, O'Connor, a consummate master of the short story form, condenses character and meaning into gems of distinctive language. Narrator Marguerite Gavin flawlessly reproduces the dialogue of O'Connor's American grotesques, among them a less-than-pious traveling Bible salesman, a young boy and his grandfather on an outing to Atlanta, a 104-year-old Civil War veteran, and a hard-edged farm woman jealous of a new immigrant and his family. Gavin gives each of these characters an authentic voice, not only by reproducing their speech accurately but also by conveying the complexity of seemingly straightforward characters caught in the tangled web of their own motivations. L.X. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

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