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"The River" is a Southern gothic short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor that was first published in 1953 about a very young boy who is taken by his babysitter to a preacher at a Christian healing where he is baptized in a river, and, the next day, runs away from home to the site of his baptism and baptizes himself, and then is ...
Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as ...
The collection was first published in 1955. The subjects of the short stories range from baptism ("The River") to serial killers ("A Good Man Is Hard to Find") to human greed and exploitation ("The Life You Save May Be Your Own"). The majority of the stories include jarring violent scenes that make the characters undergo a spiritual change.
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor (1979) [10] The Presence of Grace: and Other Book Reviews (1983) [11] The Correspondence of Flannery O'Connor and the Brainard Cheneys (1986) [12] Conversations with Flannery O'Connor (1989) [13] The Manuscripts of Flannery O'Connor at Georgia College (1989) [14] A Prayer Journal (2013) [15]
Flannery O’Connor’s Salvific Intervention. Anthony Barr. May 18, 2024 at 2:43 AM. Few people in Flannery O’Connor’s life seem to enjoy her stories—at least according to Wildcat, the new ...
Pages in category "Short stories by Flannery O'Connor" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. ... The River (short story) S. A Stroke of Good ...
Streight, who is based in Ontario, Canada, will be trekking down to Savannah for a lecture on O'Connor at the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home (FOCH) on Sept. 15. FOCH Director Janie Bragg said ...
The Complete Stories is a collection of short stories by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1971 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It comprises all the stories in A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge plus several previously unavailable stories. Complete Stories won the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. [1]