The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

O'Connor, Flannery. Edited and with an Introduction by Sally Fitzgerald

ISBN 10: 0394742591 / ISBN 13: 9780394742595

Published by Vintage Books, New York, 1980

About this Item

Reprint. Trade paperback. xvii, 617pp. Small stain on page edges, else near fine.

Seller Inventory # 593208

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
• Publisher: Vintage Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0394742591
• ISBN 13: 9780394742595
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Flannery O'Connor's warm, funny, and candid letters to old and new friends, literary figures, fellow Southerners, editors, and others offer an illuminating self-portrait of the writer

Review

"To compare her with the great letter writers in our language may seem presumptuous and would have elicited from her one of her famous steely glances, but Byron, Keats, Lawrence, Wilde and Joyce come irresistibly to mind: correspondence that gleams with consciousness."--"The New York Times""" "These hundreds of letters give O'Connor's tough, funny, careful personality to us more distinctly and movingly than any biography probably would... Remarkable and inspiring."--"Kirkus Reviews"

To compare her with the great letter writers in our language may seem presumptuous and would have elicited from her one of her famous steely glances, but Byron, Keats, Lawrence, Wilde and Joyce come irresistibly to mind: correspondence that gleams with consciousness. "The New York Times"

These hundreds of letters give O'Connor's tough, funny, careful personality to us more distinctly and movingly than any biography probably would... Remarkable and inspiring. "Kirkus Reviews""

To compare her with the great letter writers in our language may seem presumptuous and would have elicited from her one of her famous steely glances, but Byron, Keats, Lawrence, Wilde and Joyce come irresistibly to mind: correspondence that gleams with consciousness. The New York Times

These hundreds of letters give O'Connor's tough, funny, careful personality to us more distinctly and movingly than any biography probably would... Remarkable and inspiring. Kirkus Reviews

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"To compare her with the great letter writers in our language may seem presumptuous and would have elicited from her one of her famous steely glances, but Byron, Keats, Lawrence, Wilde and Joyce come irresistibly to mind: correspondence that gleams with consciousness." --The New York Times

"These hundreds of letters give O'Connor's tough, funny, careful personality to us more distinctly and movingly than any biography probably would... Remarkable and inspiring." --Kirkus Reviews