A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

A Good Man Is Hard To Find 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"). 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"
• "Around the Hedges"

Adaptations and references

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."

A film adaptation of the short story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find", titled "Black Hearts Bleed Red", was made in 1992 by New York filmmaker Jeri Cain Rossi. The film stars noted New York artist Joe Coleman. [[1]]

Sufjan Stevens has a song called "A Good Man is Hard to Find" on the album Seven Swans.

"A Good Man is Hard to Find" is the title of the last track on Tom Waits' 2002 album Blood Money.

Bruce Springsteen released a song titled "A Good Man is Hard to Find (Pittsburgh)" on his 1998 retrospective collection Tracks. Springsteen has stated that his important reading began with authors such as O'Connor, whose works he felt captured aspects of America that he wanted to explore in his own work.[2]

External links

Full Text of the titular story from the collection.
Full Text of "The Life You Save May Be Your Own".

See also

• Southern Gothic
• Southern literature
• The Grotesque