The Complete Stories

VERY GOOD — DUST JACKET: Minor wear & tear to top and bottom of spine, panels, folds and flaps. Minor chipping to top and bottom of spine and corresponding corners, primarily top. Minor chipping to all outside corners. Several closed tears along top edge, both panels. Very light soiling to front panel. Tears mended on reverse with archival tape. BOARDS: Front hinge soft; slight concave bow, front. BOOK: Nice topstain. Slightly shaken binding. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.

Here on offer is a very nice copy of Flannery O'Connor's award-winning short story collection, The Complete Stories, comprising all the stories in A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge. The work was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1971. The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve.

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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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Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.

She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a sardonic Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters, often in violent situations. The unsentimental acceptance or rejection of the limitations or imperfections or differences of these characters (whether attributed to disability, race, crime, religion or sanity) typically underpins the drama.

Her writing reflected her Roman Catholic faith and frequently examined questions of Catholicism-defined morality and ethics. Her posthumously compiled Complete Stories won the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and has been the subject of enduring praise.

The above text was taken from, respectively, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.