A Good Man is Hard to Find (The Harcourt Brace Casebook Series in Literature) [Paperback]

Flannery O'Connor (Author), Laura Mandell Zaidman (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 21, 1999

Part of The Wadsworth Casebooks for Reading, Research, and Writing Series, this new title provides all the materials a student needs to complete a literary research assignment in one convenient location.

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About the Author

Laurie Kirszner is a bestselling author and a practicing teacher who is well known nationally. Kirszner, together with coauthor Stephen R. Mandell, has written bestsellers for nearly every English market. They have the deepest publishing record of any handbook author team and have successfully published up and down the curriculum from Developmental to Literature.

Stephen Mandell is a bestselling author and a practicing teacher who is well known nationally. Mandell, together with coauthor Laurie G. Kirszner, has written bestsellers for nearly every English market. They have the deepest publishing record of any handbook author team and have successfully published up and down the curriculum from Developmental to Literature.

Product Details

• Paperback: 148 pages
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace; 1 edition (July 21, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0155074709
• ISBN-13: 978-0155074705
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,554,658 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1925, the only child of Catholic parents. In 1945 she enrolled at the Georgia State College for Women. After earning her degree she continued her studies on the University of Iowa's writing program, and her first published story, 'The Geranium', was written while she was still a student. Her writing is best-known for its explorations of religious themes and southern racial issues, and for combining the comic with the tragic. After university, she moved to New York where she continued to write. In 1952 she learned that she was dying of lupus, a disease which had afflicted her father. For the rest of her life, she and her mother lived on the family dairy farm, Andalusia, outside Millidgeville, Georgia. For pleasure she raised peacocks, pheasants, swans, geese, chickens and Muscovy ducks. She was a good amateur painter. She died in the summer of 1964.

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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW! What a great story...don't read the other review!, April 12, 2008

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This review is from: 'A Good Man is Hard to Find': Flannery O'Connor (Women Writers: Text & Contexts Series) (Paperback)

Don't read that other review...it will ruin the whole point of the book. Without giving anything away, I will just say that this is an amazing book, and it stirred several emotions....and I can't say more without giving it away....so I will just recommend you read it! Well written, great, great book! Takes no time to read!

1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Good Main is Hard to Find, September 7, 2009

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This review is from: A Good Man is Hard to Find (The Harcourt Brace Casebook Series in Literature) (Paperback)

Not the book I was looking for - but for someone writing a research paper on this particular short story; it would be more helpful.