Flannery O'connor: Fiction Fired By Faith (people Of God)
by Angela Alaimo O'Donnell /
2015 / English / EPUB
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Flannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith
Flannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith tells the
remarkable story of the gifted young woman who set out from her
native Georgia to develop her talents as a writer and eventually
succeeded in becoming one of the most accomplished fiction
writers of the twentieth century. Struck with a fatal disease
just as her career was blooming, O’Connor was forced to return to
her rural home and to live an isolated life, far from the
literary world she longed to be a part of.
tells the
remarkable story of the gifted young woman who set out from her
native Georgia to develop her talents as a writer and eventually
succeeded in becoming one of the most accomplished fiction
writers of the twentieth century. Struck with a fatal disease
just as her career was blooming, O’Connor was forced to return to
her rural home and to live an isolated life, far from the
literary world she longed to be a part of.
In this insightful new biography, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell depicts
O’Connor’s passionate devotion to her vocation, despite her
crippling illness, the rich interior life she lived through her
reading and correspondence, and the development of her deep and
abiding faith in the face of her own impending mortality. She
also explores some of O’Connor’s most beloved stories, detailing
the ways in which her fiction served as a means for her to
express her own doubts and limitations, along with the challenges
and consolations of living a faithful life. O’Donnell’s biography
recounts the poignant story of America’s preeminent Catholic
writer and offers the reader a guide to her novels and stories so
deeply informed by her Catholic faith.
In this insightful new biography, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell depicts
O’Connor’s passionate devotion to her vocation, despite her
crippling illness, the rich interior life she lived through her
reading and correspondence, and the development of her deep and
abiding faith in the face of her own impending mortality. She
also explores some of O’Connor’s most beloved stories, detailing
the ways in which her fiction served as a means for her to
express her own doubts and limitations, along with the challenges
and consolations of living a faithful life. O’Donnell’s biography
recounts the poignant story of America’s preeminent Catholic
writer and offers the reader a guide to her novels and stories so
deeply informed by her Catholic faith.
People of God is a series of inspiring biographies for the
general reader. Each volume offers a compelling and honest
narrative of the life of an important twentieth or twenty-first
century Catholic. Some living and some now deceased, each of
these women and men has known challenges and weaknesses familiar
to most of us but responded to them in ways that call us to our
own forms of heroism. Each offers a credible and concrete witness
of faith, hope, and love to people of our own day.
People of God is a series of inspiring biographies for the
general reader. Each volume offers a compelling and honest
narrative of the life of an important twentieth or twenty-first
century Catholic. Some living and some now deceased, each of
these women and men has known challenges and weaknesses familiar
to most of us but responded to them in ways that call us to our
own forms of heroism. Each offers a credible and concrete witness
of faith, hope, and love to people of our own day.
