National Book Award Winner
The Complete Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
Summary
This posthumous volume gathers all of O'Connor's short fiction, set largely in the rural and small town South she knew as a Georgia writer bound to her farm while living with lupus. Her stories pair sharp, often hilarious dialogue with sudden eruptions of violence and grace, shaped by a fierce Catholic moral imagination. The collection is widely regarded as one of the indispensable bodies of work in American literature.
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Historical Context & Significance
O'Connor had died seven years prior; in 2009, this collection was voted the best NBA winner across the prize's entire 60 years.