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A good hard look: a novel of flannery o'connor

โœ Scribed by Ann Napolitano

Book ID
100548572
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group; Penguin Books
Year
2014
Tongue
en-US
Weight
256 KB
Category
Fiction
City
New York
ISBN
0143121154

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โœฆ Synopsis

In Flannery O'Connor's hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia, reckless relationships lead to a tragedy that forever alters the town and the author herself.
Crippled by lupus at twenty-five, celebrated author Flannery O'Connor was forced to leave New York City and return home to Andalusia, her family farm in Milledgeville, Georgia. Years later, as Flannery is finishing a novel and tending to her menagerie of peacocks, her mother drags her to the wedding of a family friend.
Cookie Himmel embodies every facet of Southern womanhood that Flannery lacks: she is revered for her beauty and grace; she is at the helm of every ladies' organization in town; and she has returned from her time in Manhattan with a rich fiance, Melvin Whiteson. Melvin has come to Milledgeville to begin a new chapter in his life, but it is not until he meets Flannery that he starts to take a good hard look at the choices he has made. Despite the limitations of her disease, Flannery seems to be...

โœฆ Subjects

FICTION -- Biographical

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