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I do not want to be lonely all my life but people only make us lonelier by reminding us of God. Dear God please help me to be an artist, please let it lead to You.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eO’Connor could not be more plain about her literary ambition: “Please help me dear God to be a good writer and to get something else accepted,” she writes. Yet she struggles with any trace of self-regard: “Don’t let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs W. A. Sessions, who knew O’Connor, writes in his introduction, it was no coincidence that she began writing the stories that would become her first novel, \u003ci\u003eWise Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, during the years when she wrote these singularly imaginative meditations. Including a facsimile of the entire journal in O’Connor’s own hand, \u003ci\u003eA Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJournal\u003c\/i\u003e is the record of a brilliant young woman’s coming-of-age, a cry from the heart for love, grace, and art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar Straus Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42872464769104,"sku":"9780374236915B","price":9.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780374236915-l.jpg?v=1785874688"},{"product_id":"mystery-and-manners-9780374508043b","title":"Mystery and Manners","description":"This collection shows Flannery O'Connor's extraordinary versatility and expertise as a practitioner of the essayistic form. The book opens with \"The King of the Birds\", her famous account of raising peacocks. There are three essays on regional writing, two on teaching literature, and four on the writer and religion. Essays such as \"The Nature and Aim of Fiction\" and \"Writing Short Stories\" are gems, and their value to the contemporary reader - and writer - is inestimable.","brand":"Noonday Press","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42821266079824,"sku":"9780374508043B","price":10.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780374508043-l.jpg?v=1785882997"},{"product_id":"the-violent-bear-it-away-fsg-classics-9780374530877b","title":"The Violent Bear It Away (FSG Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA landmark novel first published in 1960, showcasing Flannery O’Connor’s Gothic sensibility and bracing satirical voice.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA trade paperback reprint in the \u003cem\u003eFSG Classics\u003c\/em\u003e series from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA brilliant, innovative novel, acutely alert to where the sacred lives—and where it does not\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1960, \u003cem\u003eThe Violent Bear It Away\u003c\/em\u003e is a landmark in American literature—a dark and absorbing example of the Gothic sensibility and bracing satirical voice that are united in Flannery O'Connor's work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this, O'Connor's second novel, the orphaned Francis Marion Tarwater and his cousin, the schoolteacher Rayber, defy the prophecy of their dead uncle that Tarwater will become a prophet and baptize Rayber's young son, Bishop. A series of struggles ensues, as Tarwater fights an internal battle against his innate faith and the voices calling him to be a prophet while Rayber tries to draw Tarwater into a more \"reasonable\" modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBoth wrestle with the legacy of their dead relative and lay claim to Bishop's soul. All this is observed by O'Connor with an astonishing combination of irony and compassion, humor and pathos.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“I am sure her books will live on and on in American Literature” —Elizabeth Bishop\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“There is very little contemporary fiction which touches the level of Flannery O'Connor at her best.” —Alan Pryce-Jones, \u003cem\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n","brand":"Farrar Straus Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42821286953040,"sku":"9780374530877B","price":10.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780374530877-l.jpg?v=1785883080"},{"product_id":"wise-blood-9780374530631b","title":"Wise Blood","description":"Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature.  It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith.  He falls under the spell of a \"blind\" street preacher named Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter, Lily Sabbath.  In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own non-faith, and to prove himself a greater cynic than Hawks. Hazel Motes founds The Church of Christ Without Christ, but is still thwarted in his efforts to lose God.  He meets Enoch Emery, a young man with \"wise blood,\" who leads him to a mummified holy child, and whose crazy maneuvers are a manifestation of Hazel's existential struggles.  This tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdom gives us one of the most consuming characters in modern fiction.","brand":"Farrar Straus Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42821336105040,"sku":"9780374530631B","price":10.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780374530631-l.jpg?v=1785883277"},{"product_id":"everything-that-rises-must-converge-9780374504649b","title":"Everything That Rises Must Converge","description":"Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death.  This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality.  The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque; each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written by no one else.  269 pages.","brand":"Farrar Straus Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42869870166096,"sku":"9780374504649B","price":10.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780374504649-l.jpg?v=1785883284"},{"product_id":"the-complete-stories-centennial-edition-9781250387455b","title":"The Complete Stories (Centennial Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow with a new introduction from Hilton Als and a redesigned cover, Flannery O’Connor’s \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is the essential collection of this legendary author’s most infamous works.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the essential volume of the stories of Flannery O’Connor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these sly, laconic, and fiercely observed works, O’Connor does nothing less than elaborate a unique and new way of seeing the world. 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