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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

Flannery O'Connor
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literary fiction Southern Gothic past tense third limited POV ~303 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

bleak ironic gritty

A literary fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose. Plot-driven. Contains notable violence, humor.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 85
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 60
externalintrospective
Ending 40
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 60
intimateepic

Content

Violence 60%
noneextreme
Sexual content 40%
noneexplicit
Humor 50%
seriouscomedic
Romance 30%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count75,673
Page count~303 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited

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