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The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
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The Complete Stories (original 1971; edition 1971)

by Flannery O'Connor

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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 lifetimeâ??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"â??sent to her publisher shortly before her deathâ??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 Gir… (more)

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What I love about Flannery O’Connor is this certain realistic and raw approach to storytelling she had which I find seldom elsewhere in literature. You don’t find this kind of liberality very often, where the author’s characters aren’t all angels (God forbid). O’Connor, though a Christian, wasn’t afraid to show things as they are and as she saw them, regardless of how “immoral” or “shocking” it might have been to her audience. Why should a writer mar her or his characters just to be decent and destroy the underlying message? ( )
  TheBooksofWrath | Apr 18, 2024 |
I'm giving this five stars not because it's without flaws, but because there just isn't a bad story in this collection. Just under twenty years of work in this volume, and it's just--extraordinary. My current favorite might be "Good Country People" in large part because of how unusual it is in her oeuvre to write a character like Hulga, and how skillfully she does it. ( )
  localgayangel | Mar 5, 2024 |
She is an indisputable master of the short story and one of America's greatest literary talents. A Temple Of The Holy Ghost is my favorite story. Reading her makes me feel nauseous, though. ( )
  CodyMaxwellBooks | Oct 30, 2021 |
I got hooked with "Good Country People," and it's been downhill ever since.

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This was a Kindle Daily Deal a couple days ago, so it doesn't hurt to have it in both hardcover and digital format, right? RIGHT. I ought to re-read these very soon. ( )
  LibroLindsay | Jun 18, 2021 |
capsules of southern culture
  ritaer | Jun 5, 2021 |
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O'Connor, Flannery—primary authorall editionsconfirmed
Covián, MarceloTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Giroux, RobertIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Stahl, Ben F.Illustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Enoch Emery
Francis Marion Tarwater
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The Displaced Person (1977), Wise Blood (1979). (1977 | 1979)
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Old Dudley folded into the chair he was gradually molding to his own shape and looked out the window fifteen feet away into another window framed by blackened red brick.
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Fiction. Short Stories. HTML:

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 lifetimeâ??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"â??sent to her publisher shortly before her deathâ??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 Gir

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813.54Literature › English (North America) › American fiction › 20th Century › 1945-1999

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PS3565.C57Language and Literature › American literature › American literature › Individual authors › 1961-

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