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Title: The Life You Save May Be Your Own

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Title: The Life You Save May Be Your Own Title Record # 1555858
Author: Flannery O'Connor
Date: 1953-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Webpages: drabblecast.org
Language: English
Note: First published in the Spring 1953 issue of the Kenyon Review.
Synopsis: Lucynell is deaf & very sheltered, living with her mother on a farm. A vagrant names Shiftlet comes to work for a few days. The mother, desperate to find Lucynell a husband, maneuvers and bribes the two of them into marrying. Shuffled drives away with Lucynell but soon abandons her in a diner.
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories 1955-00-00 Flannery O'Connor Harcourt, Brace & Company  
$3.50?$: US dollar
251
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories 1992-10-00 Flannery O'Connor Harcourt Brace (HBJ Modern Classic) 0-15-136504-0
$15.95?$: US dollar
252
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll David Diaz Checkmark
The Drabblecast, #421 2020-02-20 ed. Norm Sherman The Drabblecast  
$0.00?$: US dollar
 
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.
mag Checkmark
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories date unknown Flannery O'Connor Image Books 0-385-06964-2
$1.75?$: US dollar
233
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Judith Leeds Checkmark
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