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Everything That Rises Must Converge

by Flannery OConnor
Everything That Rises Must Converge

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Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque; each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written by no one else.

Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1925. When she died at the age of thirty-nine, America lost one of its most gifted writers at the height of her powers.

Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque; each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written by no one else.

"Flannery O'Connor was never better. This is a fine collection."J. F. Powers

"The current volume of posthumous storied is the work of a master, a writer's writerbut a reader's tooan incomparable craftsman who wrote, let it be said, some of the finest stories in our language."Newsweek

"When I read Flannery O'Connor, I do not think of Hemingway, or Katherine Anne Porter, or Sartre, but rather of someone like Sophocles. What more can you say for a writer? I write her name with honor, for all the truth and all the craft with which she shows man's fall and his dishonor."Thomas Merton

"There is very little contemporary fiction which touches the level of Flannery O'Connor at her best."Alan Pryce-Jones, New York Herald Tribune

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"The current volume of posthumous stories is the work of a master, a writer's writer-- but a reader's too-- an incomparable craftsman who wrote, let it be said, some of the finest stories in our language."--Newsweek

"All in all they comprise the best collection of shorter fiction to have been published in America during the past twenty years."--Theodore Solotaroff, Book Week

"When I read Flannery O'Connor, I do not think of Hemingway, or Katherine Anne Porter, or Sartre, but rather of someone like Sophocles. What more can you say for a writer? I write her name with honor, for all the truth and all the craft with which she shows man's fall and his dishonor."--Thomas Merton

Synopsis

Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque; each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written by no one else.

Synopsis

Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965) is nine posthumous stories. The introduction is by Robert Fitzgerald.


About the Author

Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1925. When she died at the age of thirty-nine, America lost one of its most gifted writers at the height of her powers. OConnor wrote two novels, Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960), and two story collections, A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955) and Everything That Rises Must Converge (1964). Her Complete Stories, published posthumously in 1972, won the National Book Award that year, and in a 2009 online poll it was voted as the best book to have won the award in the contests 60-year history. Her essays were published in Mystery and Manners (1969) and her letters in The Habit of Being (1979). In 1988 the Library of America published her Collected Works; she was the first postwar writer to be so honored. OConnor was educated at the Georgia State College for Women, studied writing at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and wrote much of Wise Blood at the Yaddo artists colony in upstate New York. She lived most of her adult life on her familys ancestral farm, Andalusia, outside Milledgeville, Georgia.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Everything That Rises Must Converge

Greenleaf

A View of the Woods

The Enduring Chill

The Comforts of Home

The Lame Shall Enter First

Revelation

Parker's Back

Judgement Day



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"I wouldn't milk a cow to save your soul from hell." I love this book! Within the first paragraph, or sentence even, of each story, I was helplessly hooked. I was amazed at how in such a short amount of space she was able to create these vividly wretched characters (and I loved each and every one of them, or loved to hate them, in some cases). I can't wait to read her other works.

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Indira , July 03, 2006 (view all comments by Indira)
This collection has some of my favorite O'Connor stories. The title story is about a white woman who does not know what to do when she sees a black woman wearing the same hat as her. O'Connor often writes about college educated children coming home to their rural roots and the ways in which they are knocked off their self raised pedestals.... This collection contains several variants on that them.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780374504649
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
01/01/1965
Publisher:
FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX
Series info:
FSG Classics
Pages:
320
Height:
.90IN
Width:
5.40IN
Thickness:
.75
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1965
Series Volume:
no. 9-1360
UPC Code:
2800374504641
Illustrator:
Robert Fitzgerald
Author:
Robert, S.J. Fitzgerald
Introduction by:
Robert Fitzgerald
Introduction by:
Robert Fitzgerald
Author:
Flannery Oconnor
Author:
Flannery O'Connor
Subject:
Social life and customs
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Subject:
Short stories
Subject:
Stories (single author)
Subject:
Southern states
Subject:
Short stories, American

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