{"product_id":"letters-of-flannery-oconnor-and-christine-flanagan-9780820363653","title":"The Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Caroline Gordon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This girl is a real novelist,\" wrote Caroline Gordon about Flannery O'Connor upon being asked to review a manuscript of O'Connor's first novel, \u003ci\u003eWise Blood\u003c\/i\u003e. \"She is already a rare phenomenon: a Catholic novelist with a real dramatic sense, one who relies more on her technique than her piety.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection of letters and other documents offers the most complete portrait of the relationship between two of the American South's most acclaimed twentieth-century writers: Flannery O'Connor and Caroline Gordon. Gordon (1895-1981) had herself been a prot馮馥 of an important novelist, Ford Madox Ford, before publishing nine novels and three short story collections of her own, most notably, \u003ci\u003eThe Forest of the South \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOld Red and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and she would offer insights and friendship to O'Connor during almost all of O'Connor's career. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs revealed in this collection of correspondence, Gordon's thirteen-year friendship with O'Connor (1925-64) and the critiques of O'Connor's fiction that she wrote during this time not only fostered each writer's career but occasioned a remarkable series of letters full of insights about the craft of writing. Gordon, a more established writer at the start of their correspondence, acted as a mentor to the younger O'Connor and their letters reveal Gordon's strong hand in shaping some of O'Connor's most acclaimed work, including \u003ci\u003eWise Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, \"A Good Man Is Hard to Find,\" and \"The Displaced Person.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christine Flanagan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820363650\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820363653\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d","brand":"Christine Flanagan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44070862389503,"sku":"9780820363653","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b7875f2f-79ea-4b15-bef0-71268d98dfcd.jpg?v=1685432765","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/letters-of-flannery-oconnor-and-christine-flanagan-9780820363653","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}