A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories - Wikipedia A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from A Good Man is Hard to Find) Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about the book. For the short story, see A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story). For the song, see A Good Man Is Hard to Find (song). A Good Man Is Hard to Find First edition cover Author Flannery O'Connor Country United States Language English Genre Southern Gothic Published 1955 (Harcourt, Brace and Company) Media type Print (hardcover) Pages 256 pp ISBN 978-0156364652 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." Contents 1 Contents 2 Title 3 Adaptations 4 See also 5 Footnotes 6 External links Contents[edit] It contains the following stories: "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" Title[edit] The namesake comes from a 1920s blues song. O'Connor's story title was taken from the blues song, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", written by Eddie Green and popularized by the singer Bessie Smith in 1927. Adaptations[edit] A television adaptation of the short story "The Life You Save May Be Your Own", starring Gene Kelly, was broadcast on the CBS network's Schlitz Playhouse on February 1, 1957. O'Connor was not pleased with the results, as evidenced in a letter to a friend: "The best I can say for it is that it conceivably could have been worse. Just conceivably."[1] A short film adaptation of the story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", titled "Black Hearts Bleed Red", was released in 1993. The film was directed by New York filmmaker Jeri Cain Rossi and stars noted New York artist Joe Coleman.[2] Musician Sufjan Stevens wrote a song titled "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" on his album Seven Swans; it is told from the viewpoint of the Misfit even though he is not the focus of the story.[3] In May 2017, director John McNaughton and Michael Rooker will make a feature film adaptation.[4] See also[edit] Novels portal Southern Gothic Southern literature The Grotesque Footnotes[edit] ^ Fitzgerald, Sally (1979). Flannery O'Connor: The Habit of Being. Vintage. pp. 191, 205. ^ "Black Hearts Bleed Red (1993)". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 December 2011. ^ Pitchfork review ^ N'Duka, Amanda. "Michael Rooker Reteams With His 'Henry' Director On 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 11 May 2017. External links[edit] Full text of the titular story from the collection. Full text of "The Life You Save May Be Your Own." A Good Man is Hard to Find from Google Books v t e Flannery O'Connor (works) Novels Wise Blood (1952) The Violent Bear It Away (1960) Short story collections A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955) "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" Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965) "Everything That Rises Must Converge" "Greenleaf" "A View of the Woods" "The Enduring Chill" "The Comforts of Home" "The Lame Shall Enter First" "Revelation" "Parker's Back" "Judgement Day" Previously unavailable stories included in The Complete Stories (1971) "The Geranium" "The Barber" "Wildcat" "The Crop" "The Turkey" "The Train" "The Peeler" "The Heart of the Park" "Enoch and the Gorilla" "You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead" "The Partridge Festival" "Why Do the Heathen Rage?" Related Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home Andalusia (estate) Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Authority control GND: 1030433372 VIAF: 190510426 WorldCat Identities (via VIAF): 190510426 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_Good_Man_Is_Hard_to_Find_and_Other_Stories&oldid=962565836" Categories: 1955 short story collections Short story collections by Flannery O'Connor Harcourt (publisher) books Hidden categories: Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Čeština Deutsch Kiswahili Edit links This page was last edited on 14 June 2020, at 20:08 (UTC). 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