A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND AND OTHER STORIES

A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND AND OTHER STORIES

by Flannery O'Connor

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O'Connor, Flannery. A good man is hard to find and other stories.

(A Harvest/HBJ book) CONTENTS: A good man is hard to find. -- The river. -- The life you

save may be your own. -- A stroke of good fortune, [etc.] I. Title. [PZ4.0183G09] [PS3565-C57] 813'.5'4 77-3306 ISBN 0-15-636465-4 Printed in the United States of America

FOR SALLY AND ROBERT FITZGERALD

CONTENTS

A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND THE RIVER THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN A STROKE OF GOOD FORTUNE A TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST THE ARTIFICIAL NIGGER A CIRCLE IN THE FIRE A LATE ENCOUNTER WITH THE ENEMY GOOD COUNTRY PEOPLE THE DISPLACED PERSON

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THE GRANDMOTHER didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. Bailey was the son she lived with, her only boy. He was sitting on the edge of his chair at the table, bent over the orange sports section of the _Journal_. "Now look here, Bailey," she said, "see here, read this," and she stood with one hand on her thin hip

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