The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1980

The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor edited and introduced by Sally Fitzgerald

FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1980] VINTAGE BOOKS

Jumbo [hardcover sized] Trade Paperback with gold embossments on cover and spine. 

Book reads beautifully; pages look good as new.  Cover shows some wear to edges; minor creasing.  Beautiful copy of this rare edition! 

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award

"I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her letters . . . There she stands, a phoenix risen from her own words: calm, slow, funny, courteous, both modest and very sure of herself, intense, sharply penetrating, devout but never pietistic, downright, occasionally fierce, and honest in a way that restores honor to the word."—Sally Fitzgerald, from the Introduction