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| Original Title: | The Complete Works |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award for Fiction (1972) |
Flannery O'Connor
Paperback | Pages: 555 pages Rating: 4.4 | 35006 Users | 1615 Reviews
Present Of Books The Complete Stories
| Title | : | The Complete Stories |
| Author | : | Flannery O'Connor |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | FSG Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 555 pages |
| Published | : | 1971 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (first published 1955) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Classics. Literature. American. Southern |
Commentary In Favor Of Books The Complete Stories
This is the original cover edition of ISBN: 0374515360 (ISBN13: 9780374515362Winner 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.
Contents:
The geranium --
The barber --
Wildcat --
The crop --
The turkey --
The train --
The peeler --
The heart of the park --
A stoke of good fortune --
Enoch and the gorilla --
A good man is hard to find --
A late encounter with the enemy --
The life you save may be your own --
The river --
A circle in the fire --
The displaced person --
A temple of the Holy Ghost --
The artificial nigger --
Good country people --
You can't be any poorer than dead --
Greenleaf --
A view of the woods --
The enduring chill --
The comforts of home --
Everything that rises must converge --
The partridge festival --
The lame shall enter first --
Why do the heathen rage? --
Revelation --
Parker's back --
Judgement Day.
Rating Of Books The Complete Stories
Ratings: 4.4 From 35006 Users | 1615 ReviewsPiece Of Books The Complete Stories
An unforgettable collection of hard-hitting, caustically humorous and unrelentingly cynical stories from perhaps the strongest female voice in Southern U.S. fiction. OConnor turns her merciless eye on religious hypocrisy, class consciousness, racism, gender roles, familial relationships, and other fertile topics, plowing them for the ugly truths they reveal about the general nature of humankind. Spending time with her characters (all of whom are depressive, delusional, misanthropic, criminal,The stories in this collection were written by an unassuming yet serious Catholic woman from Georgia who, after devoting her short life to writing, died of lupus in 1964. Besides the stories, she had written two novels and started a third; one can only speculate what other masterpieces she would have written had she lived longer.The stories are hard-bitten, bizarre and haunting. Two that I read years ago in college have stuck with me and are just as jarring today as they were then. O'Connor's
In February 1948, Flannery O'Connor, a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Iowa, was twenty-three years old and eager to please the publishing industry with the beginning chapters of a novel-in-progress titled Wise Blood. A letter O'Connor received from one such publisher was not receptive. He commended her for being a straight-shooter and added that she was gifted, but with a loneliness in her work, as if she were writing simply out of her own experience. O'Connor responded to a
How would you feel if you emptied your garbage can on the floor, searching through the contents for a valuable you were sure was lost there, only to end up with muck on your hands? That's how I felt after reading a collection of the author's short stories.With a few adjustments for technology and history, the characters depicted in story after story are mostly ordinary, modern Americans. In fact, the author's benighted rookery of dim-wits and out-and-out idiots finds its voice today thoughout
ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE - WHERE DO THEY ALL COME FROM?ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE -WHERE DO THEY ALL BELONG?- Lennon & McCartneyGARLIC AND SAPPHIRE IN THE MUDCLOT THE BEDDED AXLE-TREE.- T.S. EliotFlannery OConnor is a Wall. And shes each Brick in that Wall - hard-edged; uncompromising; and made out of unyielding, obdurate Faith.Shes not a Nice Writer.Nor is she trying to be. Cause shes trying to give us the Straight Goods.No, shes not living the Dream. Shes living the REALITY.And yes, we all have
Flannery O'Connor is a fantastic storyteller. Her spare, precise prose renders setting and character in rapid strokes and then plunges deep into their essential character. I put off reading her for a while since realism wasn't so much my focus at present, but this isn't exactly realism, and it isn't exactly anything anyone can afford not to read immediately. More than portraiture, each story captures its subject at a pivotal moment and plunges straight into complex failings. Each coils tightly
I have just finished the book unfortunately with a lot of effort, many years ago I had already read some of these stories and I liked them very much.....I dont remember them being so gloomy, totally violent where men drown in their grief, totally enveloped in their circumstances of daily tragedies...I have read many articles on Flannery O'Connor, and I understand and I see the question "God is for the violent too" but in a Catholic perspective, here everything is hopeless, confused....the souls
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