The habit of being
Subtitle: letters
By: Flannery O'Connor ; edited and with an introd. by Sally Fitzgerald.
Contributors: Fitzgerald, Sally.
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 617
Subjects: O'Connor, Flannery -- Correspondence; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
First sentence: Most of the readers of these letters are probably familiar with the simpler facts of Flannery O'Connor's life: that she was born in Savannah, Georgia on March 25, 1925, the only child of Edward Francis O'Connor and Regina Cline O'Connor; that she moved to Milledgeville, Georgia, her mother's birthplace, when she was twelve years old, after her father had fallen gravely ill.
Description: Selected letters from Flannery O'Connor from her early 20s until at her death at age 39.
Notes: Reprint of the ed. published by Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, New York.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction by Sally Fitzgerald
pagenum: ix; title: Part I: Up North and Getting Home 1948-1952
pagenum: 3; title: Part II: Day In and Day Out 1953-1958
pagenum: 53; title: Part III: "The Violent Bear It Away" 1959-1963
pagenum: 315; title: Part IV: The Last Year 1964
pagenum: 559; title: Index
pagenum: 599