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These stories of the sporting life range beyond the expected to include such pursuits as yoga, billiards, horse racing, cards, and boxing. Even iconic sports like football, basketball, and baseball…
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M.K. Shaddix
In the fifty years since her death, Flannery O'Connor studies have been conventionally delimited to two critical parameters: the South and the Church of Rome.
This work challenges the conception…
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Jessica Hooten Wilson
Flannery O'Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky shared a deep faith in Christ, which compelled them to tell stories that force readers to choose between eternal life and demonic possession. Their either-or…
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Work, and the coffee-fuelled day-to-day grind, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award…
Love, in some of the infinite ways we may know it, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in…
Death, that ending of all endings, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award…
These stories amount to something more than a celebration of the holidays dotting our calendars from month to month. Each story serves to complicate how we observe the human observation…
Travel can whisk us away to craggy mountainsides and sunny coastlines or bustling cities and mysterious jungles. Travel can excite and rejuvenate or intimidate and overwhelm. These sixteen stories reflect…
Growing up can mean growing pains and the joys of new independence. These thirteen stories describe the slow and subtle experience of growing up, allowing us to reflect upon the…
Steven R. Watkins
Flannery O'Connor, the renowned short-story writer, lived and fought a tumultuous battle with lupus erythematosus most of her adult life. In her last five years, she sought insightful and helpful…
Front porches, family cars, playgrounds, swimming pools: from such familiar haunts of childhood, these stories look out on the world through young eyes and hearts. Wise beyond their years -…
Sharon Therese Nemeth
In pursuit of selfhood, the non-conformist hero of the Post-World War II American South sets out on an uncertain path leading to confrontation and finally transformation. This study examines William…
Sherry L Lebeck
This study uses two short stories by Flannery O'Connor to explore D. W. Winnicott’s theory of early childhood development. This thesis proposes that the inherited potential of the individual is…
Flannery O'Connor
A major literary event: between two covers for the first time the spiritual wisdom of one of our most significant writers.
These stories offer layered, perceptive takes on what home means to us. The people we meet in these stories are often traveling to and from home - thinking about where…
Gary M. Ciuba
In this groundbreaking study, Gary Ciuba examines how four of the American South’s most probing writers of twentieth-century fiction - Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Walker Percy…
Mitch Finley
This book begins with a brief quotation form the writings of a spiritual guide. You will find a short re-flection designed to put a Lenten spin on the words you…
A collection of twenty short stories from thirteen American Catholic writers. Spanning most of the twentieth century, these stories deal with many of the issues brought into the spotlight with…
The inspiring devotional journal of a young Flannery O'Connor, which contains the key to her life and work
