The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor [TRADE PAPERBACK RE-PRINT] 2010 • FSG

The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor TRADE PAPERBACK RE-PRINT [2010] FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX More recent printing circa 2010 with beautiful matte cover.   Book is in excellent condition.  Reads like new with some very minor wear, Winner of the National Book AwardThe 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 rev