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$19.95
At Home with Flannery O'Connor: An Oral History is a collection of interviews with people who knew Flannery O'Connor, either personally or professionally, while she lived at Andalusia from 1951 until her death in 1964.  This 116-page, hardbound book, features interviews with nearby friends who visited O'Connor and were familiar with Andalusia, such as Louise Abbot, Mary Barbara Tate, Marion Montgomery, Sister Loretta Costa, and Jack and Frances Thornton.  Also included are individuals who corresponded and/or visited with O'Connor about writing and matters of faith, such as Miller Williams, Robert Giroux, Cecil Dawkins, Alfred Corn, and Ashley Brown.  The following quotes are just a few highlights from the book. (FOCA Foundation, 2012)
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$16.99

The Cartoons of Flannery O’Connor at Georgia College, a 112-page, soft-cover coffee table book, provides the never-before-assembled and published collection of the author’s cartoons that appeared in four Georgia College publications during her undergraduate years, 1942-45. (Georgia College, 2010)

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$2.95
Shades of Andalusia: A Coloring and Activity Book for Young Learners features a collection of pictures to color, puzzles to solve, and interesting things to learn about Andalusia for children in pre-school and early elementary grades. The book also includes applicable Georgia Performance Standards for teachers who wish to incorporate it into their lesson plans or curriculum.

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$16.99
A biography of O’Connor by Brad Gooch was published by Little, Brown Publishers in 2009.  In Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor, Gooch focuses on O’Connor’s friendships with Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, Walker Percy, and James Dickey, among others.  The book also explores O’Connor’s deep convictions as expressed in her communications with Thomas Merton, Elizabeth Bishop, and Betty Hester.  The book received positive reviews in numerous publications and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.  Paperback.
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$19.95
A Literary Guide to Flannery O'Connor's Georgia, (UGA Press, 2008) by Sarah Gordon, consulting editor Craig Amason, and photographer Marcelina Martin, provides commentary on O'Connor's life and writings along with archival photographs, maps, and a chronology.  There are detailed site descriptions of her childhood home in Savannah; the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers; Georgia State College for Women, Central State Hospital, the Cline House, and Andalusia in Milledgeville.  All author royalties from sales of the guide will be donated to the Flannery O'Connor - Andalusia Foundation.  Paperback.
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$15.95
The O'Connor Perpetual Calendar by Josephine Keese King includes a quote from O'Connor's fiction or prose for everyday of the year, accompanied by a cartoon by Josephine Keese King.

Books of Commentary and Criticism

$24.95 Flannery O'Connor: A Life by Jean Cash (trade paper)

$17.00 The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie (trade paper)

$18.00 Flannery O'Connor: Spiritual Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters) by Robert Ellsberg (trade paper)

$15.00 The Flannery O'Connor Review (Georgia College & State University), Volumes I through VII

$22.95 Flannery O'Connor: The Obedient Imagination by Sarah Gordon (trade paper)

$16.00 Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South by Ralph Wood (trade paper)

$25.00 Flannery O'Connor's Religion of the Grotesque by Marshall Bruce Gentry (trade paper)

DVDs and Audio Books

$39.95 Wise Blood on DVD, directed by John Huston (1979). Special edition features include: interviews with actor Brad Dourif,writer Benedict Fitzgerald, and writer-producer Michael Fitzgerald; rare archival audio recording of O'Connor reading her short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find;" a 26-minute episode of the television program Creativity with Bill Moyers from 1982, featuring director John Huston discussing his life and work. (The Criterion Collection)

$24.95 The Displaced Person on DVD, directed by Glenn Jordan, teleplay by Horton Foote (1976). Special edition features include: author bio, actor bios, and introduction by Henry Fonda. Starring Irene Worth, John Houseman, Shirley Stoler, Lane Smith, and Samuel L. Jackson. Filmed entirely on location at Andalusia. (Monterey Media)

$22.95 Good Country People on DVD, adapted to film by Jeff Jackson (1975). Starring Johnnie Collins III and Shirley Slater. Produced through an American Film Institute grant.

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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and other stories audio
Read by Marguerite Gavin
6 CDs - 7.5 hours, unabridged
Blackstone Audio
$24.95

Everything That Rises Must Converge Audio Cover

Everything That Rises Must Converge audio
Read by Bronson Pinchot, Karen White, Mark Bramhall, and Lorna Raver
8 CDs - 9 hours, unabridged
Blackstone Audio
$29.95

 

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