A Good Man is Hard to Find

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By Flannery O'Connor

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A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor follows a family road trip from Georgia to Florida that takes an unexpectedly dark turn. The journey highlights the grandmother’s complex character and the family's encounters, infused with O'Connor's themes of morality and redemption. The story explores human behaviour and moral choices with a blend of Southern Gothic elements and wry humour.
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Flannery O'Connor's famous fifties story evokes heat and dust, family and feuding, God and grace - and is utterly uncompromising in its brutality.

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A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. The grandmother suggests they change course in order to avoid 'The Misfit', an escaped convict who's reportedly heading towards Florida. But when their car turns over in a ditch, who should they flag down for help but the very man whose picture they recognise from the paper...

A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor evokes heat and dust, family and feuding, God and grace, and is utterly uncompromising in its brutality. This famous fifties story remains a poignant exploration of human nature, offering unflinching insights into the complexities of its characters.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571351817

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 March 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 3.0mm

Width: 111.0mm

Height: 160.0mm

Weight: 40g

Pages: 48

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Fiction Flannery O'Connor General Fiction Series: Faber Stories

About the Author

Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1925. She wrote two novels, Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960), and two story collections, A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955) and Everything That Rises Must Converge (1964). Her Complete Stories, published posthumously in 1972, won the National Book Award that year, and in a 2009 online poll it was voted as the best book to have won the award in the contest's 60-year history.