Winner of the National Book Award

Now with a new essay by Hilton Als and a redesigned cover, Flannery OConnors The Complete Stories is the essential collection of this legendary authors most infamous works.

This is the essential volume of the stories of Flannery OConnor.

In these sly, laconic, and fiercely observed works, OConnor 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.

These thirty-one chronologically ordered stories include twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections OConnor put together in her short lifetimeEverything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find.

Taken together, these stories reveal OConnors abiding and visionary giftone that has given us some of the most powerful and disturbing fiction of the twentieth century. Also included is an introduction by OConnors longtime editor and friend, Robert Giroux. New to this centennial edition is an essay by the critic Hilton Als.