Uncommon first edition of this memoir by the Dominican nuns of Atlanta, with O'Connor's introductory essay on the difficulties of writing and reading about good and pious children.
Near fine in very good plus jacket.
Price: $200.00
"Anyone who writes anything about me is going to have to read everything I have written, in order to make legitimate criticism, even and particularly the Mary Ann piece." — O'Connor
First approached by the Dominicans of the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home to write the life story of Mary Ann Long as a novel, a proposal she emphatically rejected, O'Connor encouraged the nuns to write it themselves and sent the manuscript produced by Sister Evangelist on to her publisher with such faint praise as she could muster ("She don't write like Shakespeare but she does well enough for this.") Her introduction, more tactful than her private letters, dwells on Nathaniel Hawthorne and on charity, and persuaded Robert Giroux to publish it: "I read your preface at once; it's marvelous. Then I read the story, with a few misgivings which somehow are not important."
Read more: O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor; Samway, Flannery O'Connor and Robert Giroux: A Publishing Partnership.
First edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, (1961). 8'' x 5.25''. Original green cloth. Green topstain. In original unclipped ($3.50) dust jacket designed by Ben Feder Associates. 134 pages. Faint soil and a few tiny tears to jacket, sunning to jacket edges and spine.
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