Every Thing That Rises Must Converge - Hardcover

O'Connor, Flannery

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571066046 ISBN 13: 9780571066049

Publisher: Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 1965

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.

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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. She is also the author of The Violent Bear It Away and Wise Blood. The first fiction writer born in the twentieth century to have her works collected and published by the Library of America, O'Connor is a member of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame and won the Rinehart-Iowa Fiction Award for a first novel.

Review

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. --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

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar Strauss and Giroux
• Publication date: 1965
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571066046
• ISBN 13: 9780571066049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 269