{"product_id":"the-letters-of-flannery-oconnor-and-caroline-gordon-9780820363653","title":"The Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Caroline Gordon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This girl is a real novelist,\" wrote Caroline Gordon about Flannery O'Connor upon being asked to review a manuscript of O'Connor's first novel, \u003ci\u003eWise Blood\u003c\/i\u003e. \"She is already a rare phenomenon: a Catholic novelist with a real dramatic sense, one who relies more on her technique than her piety.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection of letters and other documents offers the most complete portrait of the relationship between two of the American South's most acclaimed twentieth-century writers: Flannery O'Connor and Caroline Gordon. Gordon (1895-1981) had herself been a protégée of an important novelist, Ford Madox Ford, before publishing nine novels and three short story collections of her own, most notably, \u003ci\u003eThe Forest of the South \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOld Red and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and she would offer insights and friendship to O'Connor during almost all of O'Connor's career. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs revealed in this collection of correspondence, Gordon's thirteen-year friendship with O'Connor (1925-64) and the critiques of O'Connor's fiction that she wrote during this time not only fostered each writer's career but occasioned a remarkable series of letters full of insights about the craft of writing. Gordon, a more established writer at the start of their correspondence, acted as a mentor to the younger O'Connor and their letters reveal Gordon's strong hand in shaping some of O'Connor's most acclaimed work, including \u003ci\u003eWise Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, \"A Good Man Is Hard to Find,\" and \"The Displaced Person.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHRISTINE FLANAGAN is a professor of English at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. A recipient of the Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching, Flanagan is a faculty member in the University Honors Program, faculty advisor for the \u003ci\u003eElixir\u003c\/i\u003e (the USciences' literary journal), and coordinator of the Misher Festival of Fine Arts and Humanities. She lives in Haddonfield, New Jersey.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50389170127122,"sku":"9780820363653","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d491b5b1-036f-494e-8d31-93e50c0c927e.jpg?v=1728916728","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-letters-of-flannery-oconnor-and-caroline-gordon-9780820363653","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}