{"product_id":"the-complete-stories-centennial-edition-fsg-classics","title":"The Complete Stories: (Centennial Edition) (FSG Classics) by Flannery O'Connor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Book Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFlannery O'Connor's \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is the essential volume for admirers of this master of the short for--now with a foreword by Hilton Als. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn these sly, laconic, and fiercely observed works, O'Connor does nothing less than elaborate a unique and new way of seeing the world. Contorting her sharply drawn characters through her Southern Gothic prism, she produces a panorama unequaled in its vision of the interplays of faith, evil, humor, violence, and compassion that embody American life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese thirty-one chronologically ordered stories include twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime-- \u003ci\u003eEverything That Rises Must Converge\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Good Man Is Hard to Find.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaken together, these stories reveal O'Connor's abiding and visionary gift--one 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. New to this centennial edition is an essay by the critic Hilton Als.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Robert Giroux\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Geranium \u003cbr\u003eThe Barber \u003cbr\u003eWildcat \u003cbr\u003eThe Crop \u003cbr\u003eThe Turkey \u003cbr\u003eThe Train \u003cbr\u003eThe Peeler \u003cbr\u003eThe Heart of the Park \u003cbr\u003eA Stroke of Good Fortune \u003cbr\u003eEnoch and the Gorilla \u003cbr\u003eA Good Man Is Hard to Find \u003cbr\u003eA Late Encounter with the Enemy \u003cbr\u003eThe Life You Save May Be Your Own \u003cbr\u003eThe River \u003cbr\u003eA Circle in the Fire \u003cbr\u003eThe Displaced Person \u003cbr\u003eA Temple of the Holy Ghost \u003cbr\u003eThe Artificial Nigger \u003cbr\u003eGood Country People \u003cbr\u003eYou Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead \u003cbr\u003eGreenleaf \u003cbr\u003eA View of the Woods \u003cbr\u003eThe Enduring Chill \u003cbr\u003eThe Comforts of Home \u003cbr\u003eEverything That Rises Must Converge \u003cbr\u003eThe Partridge Festival \u003cbr\u003eThe Lame Shall Enter First \u003cbr\u003eWhy Do the Heathen Rage? \u003cbr\u003eRevelation \u003cbr\u003eParker's Back \u003cbr\u003eJudgement Day\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"What we lost when she died is bitter. What we have is astonishing: the stories burn brighter than ever, and strike deeper.\" -- \u003ci\u003eWalter Clemons, Newsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFlannery O'Connor\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1925. When she died at the age of thirty-nine, America lost one of its most gifted writers at the height of her powers. O'Connor wrote two novels, Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960), and two story collections, A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955) and Everything That Rises Must Converge (1964). Her Complete Stories, published posthumously in 1972, won the National Book Award that year, and in a 2009 online poll it was voted as the best book to have won the award in the contest's 60-year history. Her essays were published in Mystery and Manners (1969) and her letters in The Habit of Being (1979). In 1988 the Library of America published her Collected Works; she was the first postwar writer to be so honored. O'Connor was educated at the Georgia State College for Women, studied writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and wrote much of Wise Blood at the Yaddo artists' colony in upstate New York. She lived most of her adult life on her family's ancestral farm, Andalusia, outside Milledgeville, Georgia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Giroux\u003c\/strong\u003e is the editor of two collections of Elizabeth Bishop's writing, both published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux: The Collected Prose and One Art: Letters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHilton Als\u003c\/b\u003e is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a staff writer for The New Yorker. He has received numerous awards, including the New York Association of Black Journalists' first prize for Magazine\/Critique\/Review and Magazine Arts and Entertainment, a Guggenheim fellowship for Creative Writing, a George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, and the American Academy's Berlin Prize. He is an associate professor at Columbia University's School of the Arts, and his work has appeared in The Nation, The Believer, and The New York Review of Books. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46167938728122,"sku":"9781250387455","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/81hLRWMX8WL._SL1500.jpg?v=1784218327","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/the-complete-stories-centennial-edition-fsg-classics","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}