Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

Flannery O'Connor

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Jan 1, 1965 - Fiction - 320 pages

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.

Contents

• Everything That Rises Must Converge: 3
• Greenleaf: 24
• A View of the Woods: 54
• The Enduring Chill: 82
• The Comforts of Home 1 15: 115
• The Lame Shall Enter First: 143
• Revelation: 191
• Parkers Back: 219
• Judgement Day: 245

About the author

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) was one of America’s most gifted writers. She wrote two novels, Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away, and two story collections, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge. 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 and her letters in The Habit of Being.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories; FSG Classics
• Author: Flannery O'Connor
• Contributor: Robert Fitzgerald
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965
• ISBN: 1466829036, 9781466829039
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Short Stories (single author); Fiction / World Literature / American / 20th Century; Fiction / World Literature / American / 21st Century; Fiction / World Literature / Ireland / 21st Century