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Everything That Rises Must Converge
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Karen White, Mark Bramhall, Lorna Raver
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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Summary
This collection of nine short stories by Flannery O'Connor was 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, but 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”.
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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- Angelita
- 10-12-22
Devastating and utterly wonderful
This is the first book I've read by O'connor and I'm stunned by the subtletly and force of her writing. The readers do an incredibly good job of giving expression to her characters.
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- Soundbraid
- 06-09-19
Solid writing. Immersive performance.
A brilliant way into Flannery O Connor’s writing. The performances have character without going anywhere near melodramatic. And the writing itself moving touches into what it means to find beauty in the brokenness of humanity in a particular point and time and place in the American South. Recommended.
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- David
- 04-01-11
Great stories, read well
Alternate stories were read by a male and female voice respectively which made the whole book more pleasant to listen to.
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- Stephen Gott
- 17-02-18
Gothic Tales Of The South
There may not be anything supernatural in these stories,but they do exude a sinister atmosphere.Individual tales linger in the mind,long after reading (such as "A View Of The Woods" and "Parker's Back").The stories are read alternatively by male and female voices and this works quite well.An interesting collection of Southern Gothic tales that reflects the America of the 1950's/1960's and in some ways reveals sadly,that things haven't really changed at all !
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