Summary: Despite her premature death at age 39, Flannery O'Connor left behind one of the most haunting and strikingly original bodies of work in 20th Century literature. With the rural South as her backdrop, she brought to life a string of eccentric characters torn between their worldly ambitions and the need for a more enduring truth. This film traces the people and events that shaped her remarkable...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNCSummary: Flannery O'Connor's distinctive Southern Gothic style influenced a generation of artists and activists. Winner of the first-ever Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, O'Connor includes conversations with Mary Karr, Hilton Als and others. Through never-before-seen archival footage, examine the life and legacy of an American literary icon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FLAGooch, Brad
Summary: An engaging and authoritative biography of Flannery O'Connor, who despite the chronic disease that eventually confined her to her mother's farm in Georgia, managed to fundamentally change the landscape of American literature with her fierce, sometimes comic novels and stories.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'CONNOR,FLANNERY GOOO'Connor, Flannery.
Summary: A devotional journal by the spiritual author of "Wise Blood" covers the period in 1946 to 1947 when she was a student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and shares insights into the religious beliefs that shaped her life and work.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.092 OCOSummary: Flannery O’Connor is a writer with a keen sense of observation for the subtle cruelty that comes from fear of the unknown, and a case in point is her story “The Displaced Person.” Set in Georgia during the late 1940s, the displaced person is Mr. Guizac (Noam Yerushalmi), a Polish refugee who’s relocated by a priest (John Houseman) to work on Mrs. McIntyre’s (Irene Worth’s) farm. Quickly the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1976
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O'Connor, Flannery.
Contents: Wise blood -- A good man is hard to find -- The violent bear it away -- Everything that rises must converge -- Stories and occasional prose.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Amer Fic O'ConnorO'Connor, Flannery.
Summary: Reveals that author Flannery O'Connor originally wanted to be a cartoonist and collects her early comics, which display many of the story-telling techniques that she later used in her writing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 OCOAls, Hilton.
Summary: Analyzes literature, history, culture, entertainment, race, and gender through the lens of people the author terms "white girls," including Louise Brooks, Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Richard Pryor, Malcolm X, and Michael Jackson.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeneys Books 2013