A Good Man Is Hard To Find: Short Story

Authors: O'Connor, Flannery
Publisher: HarperPerennial Classics
BISAC/Subject: FIC000000
ISBN: 9781443440271, Related ISBNs: 1443440272, 9781443440271
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 25,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

A family embarks on a fateful road trip, setting out for a vacation in Florida. The matriarch of the family, Grandmother, wants the family to head to Tennessee instead, and eventually manipulates her son into a diversion from their course that will soon lead them into danger.

“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is one of author Flannery O’Connor’s best known works. It is also, due to the story’s shocking and violent conclusion, one of her most studied and debated works.

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