Complete Stories

Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volumefirmly established Flannery OConnors monumental contribution to Americanfiction. T... » 

Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volumefirmly established Flannery OConnors monumental contribution to Americanfiction. There are thirtyone stories here in all including twelve that do notappear in the only two story collections OConnor put together in her shortlifetimeEverything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard toFind. OConnor published her first story The Geranium in 1946 while shewas working on her masters degree at the University of Iowa. Arrangedchronologically this collection shows that her last story Judgement Daysent to her publisher shortly before her deathis a brilliantly rewritten andtransfigured version of The Geranium. Taken together these stories reveal alively penetrating talent that has given us some of the most powerful anddisturbing fiction of the twentieth century. Also included is an introductionby OConnors longtime editor and friend Robert Giroux. «