Everything That Rises Must Converge Stories [Paperback]

Flannery O'Connor was working onEverything That Rises Must Convergeat 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.

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

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

Flannery O'Connor(1925-1964) was one of Americas most gifted writers. She wrote two novels,Wise BloodandThe Violent Bear It Away, and two story collections,A Good Man Is Hard to FindandEverything That Rises Must Converge. HerComplete 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 inMystery and Mannersand her letters inThe Habit of Being.

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 trlÔ