Book Review: Good Things Come Out of Nazareth

Good Things Out of Nazareth

The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O’Connor and Friends

by Flannery O’Connor

Crown Publishing

Convergent Books

Biographies & Memoirs

Pub Date 15 Oct 2019

I am reviewing a copy of Good Things Come Out of Nazareth: The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O’ Connor and Friends through Crown Publishing/Convergent Books and Netgalley:

Flannery O’Connor born Mary Flannery O’Connor was born in 1925, in Savannah Georgia and Sadly died before she was forty, in 1964 she died. She was the master of twentieth century short fiction. joining, since her untimely death in 1964, the likes of Hawthorne, Hemingway, and Faulkner. Those familiar with her work know that her powerful ethical vision was rooted in a quiet, devout faith that informed all she wrote and did.

Flannery lived most of her life on a dairy farm in Milledgeville Georgia where she raised Peacocks. She practiced her craft in a modest room near an ample front porch. She received many visitors, used an old typewriter with a bookshelf full of modern books nearby, she read modern fiction, theology, philosophy! She read everything from William Faulkner to Thomas Aquinas.