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Always Available Flannery O'Connor Author Sampler

It is impossible to discuss the Southern Gothic genre and tropes without acknowledging this Georgia author's contributions. The ten selections below include eBooks, eAudiobooks, and video available for download with no wait. To download these works to your favorite device, install the hoopla app. You'll need your library card number and PIN/password to check out ten titles with no wait each month. If you have not changed your PIN/password, it is CHANGE ME. Atlanta Public School students and employees can also log in as part of CLASS PASS with their student ID or Lawson number. The Russell Library at Georgia State University, just a few blocks from Fulco's Central Library, houses many original source items related to Flannery O'Connor's life and writings.

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10 items

  • Part of the PBS American Masters series. Explore the life and work of author Flannery O'Connor, whose distinctive Southern Gothic style influenced a generation of artists and activists. Through never-before-seen archival footage, examine the legacy…
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  • This most famous collection of O'Connor's stories is available in both eBook and eAudiobook format with no wait with on the hoopla app. Read by Marguerite Gavin. Duration: 7:51
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2019[United States] : HarperAudio, 2019. — EAUDIOBOOK
  • A biography for juvenile audiences. In a frank but age-appropriate manner, Carpenter discusses the writer's rural southern upbringing, her relationship to race, her chronic lupus, and her Catholic faith. The book will appeal to younger (nine- to…
    eBook, 2022[United States] : University of Georgia Press, 2022. — EBOOK
  • Hazel founds The Church of God Without Christ, and that goes about as well as you'd expect. Download to your favorite device with the hoopla app. Read by Bronson Pinchot. Duration: 4:56
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2011[United States] : Blackstone Publishing, 2011. — EAUDIOBOOK
  • The complicated relationship of O'Connor to her own queerness is revealed in these personal letters. Download to your favorite device with the hoopla app.
    eBook, 2018[United States] : University of Georgia Press, 2018. — EBOOK
  • There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime—Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. To download this title…
    eBook, 1971New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971. — EBOOK
  • Wrestle with the legacy of dead relatives in this classic Southern Gothic novel. Download to your favorite device with the hoopla app. Read by Mark Bramhall. Duration: 6:15
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2011[United States] : Blackstone Publishing, 2011. — EAUDIOBOOK
  • This collection of nine short stories by Flannery O'Connor was published posthumously in 1965, and contains some real gems. Download to your favorite device with the hoopla app. Read by Bronson Pinchot. Duration: 9:07
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2011[United States] : Blackstone Publishing, 2011. — EAUDIOBOOK
  • Flannery O'Connor acted in this 1976 short film. Set in Georgia during the late 1940's, a Polish refugee (Mr. Guizac) who is relocated by a priest (John Houseman) to work on Mrs. McIntyre's (Irene Worth) farm. Quickly the industrious and clever Mr.…
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  • Succinct text from photographer Barbara McKenzie and a foreword by Robert Coles provide context for this moving collection of photographs of the middle Georgia Flannery O'Connor depicted in her fiction.
    eBook, 2013[United States] : University of Georgia Press, 2013. — EBOOK