A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

A Good Man Is Hard to Find
First edition cover
AuthorFlannery O'Connor
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreSouthern Gothic
Published1955 (Harcourt, Brace and Company)
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages256 pp
ISBN978-0156364652

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (published in the United Kingdom as The Artificial Nigger and Other Tales) is a collection of short stories by American author Flannery O'Connor. The collection was first published in 1955. The subjects of the short stories range from baptism ("The River") to serial killers ("A Good Man Is Hard to Find") to human greed and exploitation ("The Life You Save May Be Your Own"). The majority of the stories include jarring violent scenes that make the characters undergo a spiritual change. The short stories commonly have tones of Catholicism related to life and death scenarios. For instance, in the story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" the villain states, "She would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."


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