Flannery O'Connor: Voice of the Peacock

by Kathleen Feeley

Book Overview

My book aims to help readers understand and appreciate O'Connor's novels and short stories. It weaves together her "place"-Milledgeville, Georgia; her purpose-to write a good story; and her preoccupations-belief, death, grace, and the devil. I explicate the influences that give depth to her fiction: her understanding and respect for the mores of the South ( including relationships between races), the books she read and marked that reveal links to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823232158
• ISBN13: 9780823232154
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"