A Good Hard Look, (Paperback)

from mrstreme

A Good Hard Look is the fascinating, fictional account of Flannery O'Connor's last years, settled in her farm in Milledgeville, Georgia. O'Connor suffered from lupus, and she fled home to her family's farm to write and raise a menagarie of birds, including peacocks. While the reader is treated to...

from marient7

Forced by illness to leave behind a successful life as a writer in New York, Flannery O'Connor has returned to her family home in Milledgeville, Georgia. She desires a quiet, solitary existence, but her mother, Regina, insists that she engage with the life of their small town and she drags Flanne...

from Whisper1

At the young age of 39, Flannery O'Connor's life ended when systemic lupus claimed her body. This novel weaves a tale of the last five years of Flannery's life. A friend who shares similar reading tastes recommended this book. I owe her a big thanks! This book is brilliantly, powerfully written. ...

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Ann Napolitano has written a novel that is as good and as uncomfortable as one of Flannery O'Connor's stories. A Good Hard Look recreates Flannery's hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia in the 1960's. The story starts the night before the wedding of the town's most beautiful Southern Bell, Cookie H...

from ken1952

Flannery O'Connor's last years at her farm in Milledgeville, Ga during the 60's is at the core of this emotionally charged novel that will stay with me for a long time. I don't remember the last time I've read a novel that touched me so much. The tragic lives of Ann Napolitano's characters made m...