Everything that Rises Must Converge by O'Connor, Flannery - 1965

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A very nearly Fine copy in like dust jacket. Book with the spine and blue top-stain a trifle faded. Dust jacket with bright colors on the spine, but very faint, shallow dampstaining (visible from the blank jacket verso).

"Test your mind now to a South steeped in Christian fundamentalism. That's the world in which the noted author Flannery O'Connor set her fiction. Her characters experienced deep spiritual conflict and often found grace in violent or unexpected ways. In her short life, the Georgia native penned two novels and 31 short stories" (Lyden). A devout Catholic and a person with disabilities, O'Connor created work that jarringly and often brutally depicts the personal conflicts surrounding faith, desire, shame, and vulnerability. The present is a lovely copy of O'Connor's posthumously published collection of short stories, comprised primarily of pieces that she was working on in the last years leading up to hear death. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.