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Complete stories (1971)

by Flannery O'Connor

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O'Connor is one of the most talented writers I have ever read. While her stories do tend to get a bit repetitive and dark, she is an unbelievably talented writer.
One only needs to read a few pages to see how she is able to convey to the reader vast amounts of information in very few words. A single sentence can deliver imagery, setting, and characterization all before the period ends. ( )
  SAMerk | May 18, 2013 |
Flannery O'Connor is a genious of the short story. Read her and you will know her dark, demented, brilliant truth of the south. ( )
  bibliofile55 | Apr 9, 2013 |
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  velvetink | Mar 31, 2013 |
I've written and thrown out three drafts on why Flannery O'Connor is Great. I won't bother with it again, not for a while.

She covers the Grotesque and Sin of Southern life, for some thirty-odd stories. Sin and Grace in a palatable and altering way. Excellent characterization, using the smallest of details and conversations to broaden personality.

Like all good short story collections, not to be consumed in one sitting. ( )
  HadriantheBlind | Mar 30, 2013 |
I had heard so much about Flannery O'Connor I thought I'd check her out. Lordamercy! If you're ever having a wonderful time: enjoying a cool breeze on a warm day, the dogs are running, the birds are singing, your children have made you feel like a good mother - she'll slap those feelings of joy and hope right out of you. I think this line from A Good Man is Hard to Find pretty much defines her view of people: "She would have been a good woman," the Misfit said "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."

I read 5 of her stories:
The Enduring Chill
Everything That Rises Must Converge
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Judgment Day
A View of the Woods


and I think that'll be enough, unless my life begins to go off on such a wild spree of happiness that I need to bring myself down a peg or two. ( )
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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.

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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. --Publisher.… (more)

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