The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
- SKU: 9780374521042
- Category: Biography, Autobiography & Memoirs
Winner 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
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Sally Fitzgerald
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 08/01/1988
ISBN: 9780374521042
Pages: 640
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.01w x 1.74d
Review Citations: Commonweal 06/15/2007 pg. 30
Winner 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
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Sally Fitzgerald
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 08/01/1988
ISBN: 9780374521042
Pages: 640
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.01w x 1.74d
Review Citations: Commonweal 06/15/2007 pg. 30
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