num_pages: 233
description: "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor herself singled it out by making it the title piece of her first collection and the story she most often chose for readings or talks to students. It is an unforgettable tale, both riveting and comic, of the confrontation of a family with violence and sudden death. More than anything else O'Connor ever wrote, this story mixes the comedy, violence, and religious concerns that characterize her fiction.This now-classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor to be one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic, situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation: the grandmother, in the title story, confronting the murderous Misfit; a neglected four-year-old boy looking for the Kingdom of Christ in the fast-flowing waters of the river; General Sash, about to meet the final enemy.Contents:The river --The life you save may be your own --A stroke of good fortune --A temple of the holy ghost --The artificial nigger --A circle in the fire --A late encounter with the ennemy --Good country people --The displaced person.
language: English
title: A Good Man is Hard to Find: Ten Memorable Stories
titlecomplete: A Good Man is Hard to Find: Ten Memorable Stories
characters: Tom T. Shiftlet, Lucynell Crater
genres: Fiction, American, Short Stories, Gothic, Literature, Classics, 20th Century, Southern, Literary Fiction, Southern Gothic
ratings_count: 44633
publisher: Doubleday Image