Flannery O'Connor
A Prayer Journal
- ISBN 13:
- 9780374236915
- author:
- Flannery O'Connor
- format:
- HardBack
- publisher:
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2013
- Pages:
- 96
- Dimensions:
- 17.8 x 1.5 x 21.6 cm
- Genre:
- Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Catholic
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 6 working days
Description
A deeply personal and spiritual journal, recently discovered among Flannery O'Connor's papers, offers a rare glimpse into the interior life of the great writer. Written between 1946 and 1947, while O'Connor was a student at the University of Iowa, this journal reveals her singular relationship with the divine and her entwined desire for artistic expression. In these pages, O'Connor pours out her heart, seeking guidance and solace from God. Her writing is marked by a sense of vulnerability and longing, as she grapples with her own loneliness and the pressure to create. This journal is a poignant record of her coming-of-age, a cry from the heart for love, grace, and art. Facsimiled from O'Connor's own hand, this journal provides a unique insight into the mind of a brilliant young woman, struggling to find her place in the world.