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Everything That Rises Must Converge 

by

Flannery O'Connor

Everything That Rises Must Converge

(1965)
A collection of stories by

Flannery O'Connor

 

Collection of nine short stories by Flannery O'connor, published posthumously in 1965. The flawed characters of each story are fully revealed in apocalyptic moments of conflict and violence that are presented with comic detachment. The title story is a tragicomedy about social pride, racial bigotry, generational conflict, false liberalism, and filial dependence. The protagonist Julian Chestny is hypocritically disdainful of his mother's prejudices. His smug selfishness is replaced with childish fear when she suffers a fatal stroke after being struck by a black woman she has insulted out of oblivious ignorance rather than malice. Similarly, "The Comforts of Home" is about an intellectual son with an Oedipus complex. Driven by the voice of his dead father, the son accidentally kills his sentimental mother in an attempt to murder a harlot. The other stories are "A View of the Woods," "Parker's Back," "The Enduring Chill," "Greenleaf," "The Lame Shall Enter First," "Revelation," and "Judgment Day."
 
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Hardback Editions

July 2008 : Library Binding
Cover of ISBN: 1439512906Title: Everything That Rises Must Converge
Author(s): Flannery O'Connor
ISBN: 1-4395-1290-6 / 978-1-4395-1290-6
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October 1999 : Library Binding
Cover of ISBN: 0808588443Title: Everything That Rises Must Converge
Author(s): Flannery O'Connor
ISBN: 0-8085-8844-3 / 978-0-8085-8844-3 (USA edition)
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1967 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B000LREQWUTitle: Everything That Rises Must Converge
Author(s): Flannery O'connor
Publisher: Signet
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March 1966 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0571066046Title: Everything That Rises Must Converge
Author(s): Flannery O'Connor
ISBN: 0-571-06604-6 / 978-0-571-06604-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: Faber and Faber
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January 1965 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0374150125Title: Everything That Rises Must Converge
Author(s): Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O7connor
ISBN: 0-374-15012-5 / 978-0-374-15012-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
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1961 : Hardback
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Author(s): Flannery O'Connor
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Paperback Editions

1998 : Paperback
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Author(s): Flannery O'Connor
Publisher: Noonday Press
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1995 : Paperback
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1993 : Paperback
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1987 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B0017GJA02Title: EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE
Author(s): Flannery O'Connor
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1986 : Paperback
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1985 : Paperback
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1982 : Paperback
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1981 : Paperback
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September 1980 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0571116140Title: Everything That Rises Must Converge
Author(s): Flannery O'Connor
ISBN: 0-571-11614-0 / 978-0-571-11614-0 (UK edition)
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1977 : Paperback
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January 1975 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0140028366Title: Everything That Rises Must Converge
Author(s): Flannery O'Connor
ISBN: 0-14-002836-6 / 978-0-14-002836-2 (UK edition)
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1972 : Paperback
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1970 : Paperback
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1968 : Paperback
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June 1967 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0451031776Title: Everything That Rises Must Converge
Author(s): Flannery O'Connor
ISBN: 0-451-03177-6 / 978-0-451-03177-8 (USA edition)
Publisher: Signet
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June 1967 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0451047044Title: Everything That Rises Must Converge
Author(s): Flannery O'Connor
ISBN: 0-451-04704-4 / 978-0-451-04704-5 (USA edition)
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June 1967 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0451052625Title: Everything That Rises Must Converge
Author(s): Flannery O'Connor
ISBN: 0-451-05262-5 / 978-0-451-05262-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: Signet
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1966 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000EXUQ5WTitle: Every Thing That Rises Must Converge
Author(s): Flannery O'Connor
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January 1965 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0374504644Title: Everything That Rises Must Converge
Author(s): Flannery O'Connor
ISBN: 0-374-50464-4 / 978-0-374-50464-9 (USA edition)
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Other Editions

1966 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: B0000CMXAYTitle: Everything That Rises Must Converge
Author(s): Flannery O'Connor
Publisher: The Noonday Press
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