About this title: Thirty-one stories are in this volume, including 12 that never appeared in collections published during her lifetime. The stories are arranged chronologically, beginning with her first published story, "The Geranium" and ending with her last one, "Judgement Day."
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780374626235ISBN:0374626235
Description: A good reading copy only. Previous owners name inscribed inside front. Book has tanning or browning due to normal aging process. Has dampstains on outside of some pages and cover-, Trade PaperBack, Good / read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780374515362ISBN:0374515360
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 555 p. Audience: General/trade. There is some orange highlighting and writing on some of the stories and some writing on the first endpage. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780374515362ISBN:0374515360
Description: Good. Moderate cover wear with scuffing to edges and creasing. Age toning spots on page edges. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
Description: Very Good. 555pp. Bottom corner of front flyleaf is puckered. Bottom corner of front cover is lightly creased. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Description: 555pp. paperback 8vo: Good reading copy [ink name; spine cracked but firm; minimal underlining in text] 31 stories by the great Georgia writer Flannery O'Connor (1925-64). read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780374515362ISBN:0374515360
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Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-13:9780374515362ISBN:0374515360
Description: Very Good. 0374515360 Very good condition, paperback 1996, no marks, clean and crisp text, cover has no creases and very little wear, readit. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Noonday Pr
Date Published: 1971-01-01
ISBN-13:9780374515362ISBN:0374515360
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780374515362ISBN:0374515360
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: FABER AND FABER Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780571245789ISBN:0571245781
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 576 pages. Including "a good man is hard to find" and "everything that rises must converge", this collection contains a complete collection of stories from one of the most original american writers of the twentieth-century. (Paperback) read more
"After reading The Complete Stories, I am now thoroughly convinced that Flannery O'Connor is indeed one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. I loved every single story I read mostly for the hypocrisy, ridiculousness, and self-delusion of the characters. It gives me a sort of guilty pleasure to hear the characters say something that we know is completely untrue.
O'Connor uses the impressive technique of what I like to call "distant narration": the narrator holds the characters at a distance through syntax, resulting in a schism between what the character knows and what the reader knows, and the reader ends up knowing more about the characters and their situations than the characters do themselves. It's because of this technique that I believe we are able to so easily read about such blatant situations of racial and class prejudice: we know the characters are insipid and thus don't take them and their backwards beliefs too seriously."
"I've been hearing about O'Connor for years, mostly from literate Catholics. I finally decided to see what all the fuss was about. It's about an author with perfect pitch, and stories that don't let you go. She's been called Southern Gothic - I don't know what that means. These are stories about the people you drive passed on the way to the lake, and about the everyday strange lives they lead. I've got Wise Blood on hold at the library. Saw the movie and was astounded. After these stories I'm doubly looking forward to the book."
"The thing that really impresses me about O'Connor how she evokes the slow, tired humidness of the south without ever really giving long descriptions of settings. It's all here, religious guilt, the burden of the past, the failures of reconstruction, a cast of singular degenerates, all of it wrapped up in a creeping sense of doom and futility. I lived in a small town in North Carolina for two years, and I was surprised at how well these stories evoke the general physical sensations of being in the the south, which I think is empirically different (at least from the mid-west). At times the themes can be a bit repetitive, but the characters are usually so compelling that it doesn't bother you."
"im not sure how i hear about this woman but if you like short stories pick this up. she writes like no one ive ever read, but i dont read much so that isnt saying much. If your interested in post WWII race relations you gotta read this. its intense."
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