A Good Man Is Hard to Find Non-fiction his prose crackles with life

his prose crackles with life and hard-won insight

a seed of fear is planted in Amos’s mind

for Eve and Merrick

"and I will make you into fishers of men

inventive appendices

A Good Man Is Hard to Find Non-fiction his prose crackles with lifeThis now classic book revealed Flannery OConnor to be one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic, situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation: the grandmother, in the title story, confronting the murderous Misfit: a neglected four year old boy looking for the Kingdom of Christ in the fast flowing waters of the river;