Everything That Rises Must Converge

Flannery O'Connor

ISBN 10: 0374504644 / ISBN 13: 9780374504649

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Everything That Rises Must Converge
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 1965
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374504644
• ISBN 13: 9780374504649
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

“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

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.

About the Authors

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. O’Connor 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 contest’s 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. O’Connor 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 family’s ancestral farm, Andalusia, outside Milledgeville, Georgia.

Robert Fitzgerald's versions of the Iliad, the Aeneid, and the Oedipus cycle of Sophocles (with Dudley Fitts) are also classics. At his death, in 1985, he was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard.