The Habit of Being
Letters of Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor; Selected and Edited by Sally Fitzgerald
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
On Sale: 08/01/1988
ISBN: 9780374521042
640 PagesWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award
"I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her letters . . . There she stands, a phoenix risen from her own words: calm, slow, funny, courteous, both modest and very sure of herself, intense, sharply penetrating, devout but never pietistic, downright, occasionally fierce, and honest in a way that restores honor to the word."—Sally Fitzgerald, from the Introduction
Praise for The Habit of Being
“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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