The Complete Stories

O'Connor, Flannery

ISBN 10: 0374127522 / ISBN 13: 9780374127527

Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, NY., 1971

About this Item

555 pages. First edition, first printing. Introduction by Robert Giroux. Winner of the National Book Award published after her death. Includes all the all the stories from her two books of stories and 12 previously uncollected stories. Dust jacket design by Charles Skaggs. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!. Seller Inventory # 87354766267

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Complete Stories

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, NY.

Publication Date: 1971

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

Winner of the National Book Award

The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find.

O'Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, "Judgement Day"--sent to her publisher shortly before her death—is a brilliantly rewritten and transfigured version of "The Geranium." Taken together, these stories reveal a lively, penetrating talent that has given us some of the most powerful and disturbing fiction of the twentieth century. Also included is an introduction by O'Connor's longtime editor and friend, Robert Giroux.

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.