{"product_id":"the-letters-of-flannery-oconnor-and-caroline-gordon-9780820354088","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\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 prot g e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820354088\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.66h x 7.77w x 1.05d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Christine Flanagan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36644775329948,"sku":"9780820354088","price":31.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7e7f757f-e44f-4557-813c-2a706050842e.jpg?v=1603859449","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-letters-of-flannery-oconnor-and-caroline-gordon-9780820354088","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}