
Nine short stories scrutinizing race, faith, and morality in the mid-century American South through grotesque, tragicomic narratives.
Nine short stories scrutinizing race, faith, and morality in the mid-century American South through grotesque, tragicomic narratives.
Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque; each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written by no one else
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Sudden brutal acts, grotesque injuries, and violent confrontations recur
Occasional mild profanity and coarse dialogue in character speech