The Displaced Person: Short Story

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HarperCollins Canada, Jan 1, 2015 - Fiction - 25 pages

After the end of the Second World War, Mrs. McIntyre, a farm owner, decides to hire a man displaced by the war as a farm hand, but jealousy from her other workers and racial issues soon complicate the arrangement.

Written by Flannery O’Connor while visiting her mother’s farm, “The Displaced Person” has ties to the author’s own experiences of the O’Connor family’s hiring of a displaced person on their farm after the end of the war. “The Displaced Person” was originally published in O’Connor’s 1955 anthology, A Good Man Is Hard to Find.

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About the author (2015)

Flannery O’Connor was an American novelist and short-story writer, who over the course of her short career produced two novels and more than thirty short stories, including the critically acclaimed Wise Blood, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” and “Everything that Rises Must Converge.”Set primarily in the rural South, O’Connor’s Southern Gothic stories, strongly influenced by her Catholic faith, often portrayed the spiritual transformation—often violent, always painful—of a flawed individual. In 1972, she was posthumously awarded a National Book Award for Collected Stories, and was the first twentieth-century fiction writer to be collected and published by the Library of America. The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, given annually by the University of Georgia Press, was named in her honour. O’Connor died in 1964 of complication from lupus.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Displaced Person: Short Story
AuthorFlannery O'Connor
PublisherHarperCollins Canada, 2015
ISBN1443440299, 9781443440295
Length25 pages
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