The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor (e-book)

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award for Non-Fiction, The Habit of Being by O'Connor is a masterpiece. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award for Non-Fiction, The Habit of Being by O' Connor is a tour de force of social realty that stretches across decades and continents...it is a tale as old as time itself. One of the great things about The Habit of Being is the way in which it is woven together through the characters, each one offering an interpretation of the other...and by extension, their respective times and places in which they found themselves. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award for Non-Fiction, The Habit of Being by O' Connor is a masterpiece.

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Set in modern-day Ireland, in the mid-afternoon light, with the sun warming the steps on the porch leading to the kitchen, thirteen-year old Mary hurries to get ready for her daily potluck. Her mother tells her to wait for a while longer, as she's getting ready, but Mary ignores her mother and gallops to the kitchen herself. As she unspools her own tale of woe and misfortune-in both body and words-she's suddenly overcome with a sudden, unexplainable urge to communicate with her deceased grandmother. And as she gazes into the kitchen, all the threads of her life begin to unravel-her complicated family history, her painful adolescence, her love for nature and her intense desire to connect with her departed relatives.

In these final pages, The Habit of Being by O' Connor gently reworks the familiar narrative thread, weaving in new and fresh characters to tell her tale of woe. But what happens after Mary has made her grand return home? What does her grandmother do to prepare for Mary's impending visit? And how can we connect with this intricate and wonderfully detailed work of literature?