A Good Hard Look A Good Hard Look

A Good Hard Look

A Novel

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    • $9.99

Publisher Description

From the New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful and Dear Edward, a novel set in Flannery O'Connor's hometown of Milledgeville, and a tragedy that forever alters the town and the author herself

"A wholly believable world shaped by duty, small pleasures, and fateful choices."—O, The Oprah Magazine


Forced by illness to leave behind a successful life in New York, literary icon Flannery O'Connor has returned to her family farm in the small town of Milledgeville, Georgia. With her health and time both limited, all she wants is to be left alone to write.

But Flannery's plans are soon upended by Melvin Whiteson, a banker from Manhattan who has recently married the town belle. Melvin is at loose ends with his new life; though he has every opportunity, he's not sure where to begin. Flannery knows exactly what she wants, but is running out of time. Through their unusual and clandestine friendship, both will come to reflect on the decisions they have made and the paths they have chosen.

Literary history and fiction gracefully intersect in this emotionally charged novel of small town Southern life, which asks us all to consider how we can live our lives to the fullest.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2011
July 7
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
2.8
MB

Customer Reviews

weanyheadcheesecake ,

How powerful and close to the heart the words, characters and peacocks have moved.

The writing is by a magician who can make readers travel to startlingly new places.

Dog parch ,

Intense

This story was deep, disturbing and intense. Well-written with shocking actions that shook my mind. I highly recommend this book.

penarth wales ,

A Good Hard Look

Loved this book - a page-turner - Can't wait ti discuss it at our book group...

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