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The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
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ISBN10: 0374521042
ISBN13: 9780374521042
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Aug 1 1988
Pages: 640
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.74 Width: 6.01 Depth: 9.12
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780374521042
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Aug 1 1988
Pages: 640
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.74 Width: 6.01 Depth: 9.12
Language: English
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award
I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her letters . . . There she stands, a phoenix risen from her own words: calm, slow, funny, courteous, both modest and very sure of herself, intense, sharply penetrating, devout but never pietistic, downright, occasionally fierce, and honest in a way that restores honor to the word.--Sally Fitzgerald, from the IntroductionAlso in
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