The Complete Stories

Winner of the National Book Award Now with a new essay by Hilton Als and a redesigned cover,Flannery OΓÇÖConnorΓÇÖs The Complete Stories is the essential collection of this legendary authorΓÇÖs most infamous works. This is the essential volume of the stories of Flannery OΓÇÖConnor. In these slylaconicand fiercely observed worksOΓÇÖConnor does nothing less than elaborate a unique and new way of seeing the world. Contorting her sharply drawn characters through her Southern Gothic prismshe produces a panorama unequaled in its vision of the interplays of faithevilhumorviolenceand compassion that embody American life. These thirty-one chronologically ordered stories include twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections OΓÇÖConnor put together in her short lifetimeΓÇöEverything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Taken togetherthese stories reveal OΓÇÖConnorΓÇÖs abiding and visionary giftΓÇöone that has given us some of the most powerful and disturbing fiction of the twentieth century. Also included is an introduction by OΓÇÖConnorΓÇÖs longtime editor and friendRobert Giroux. New to this centennial edition is an essay by the critic Hilton Als.