Flannery O'Connor: The complete stories

I am so glad I heard about this author. I now have read everything she has written that is published. She is an amazing storyteller and kept me engaged and raving about her with each read. A brilliant look at southern attitudes and the lives and struggles of very ordinary poor folk in the post WWII South. O’Conner died too young but her stories will live on.

She writes so beautifully, and includes a good message in every story.

I love this book her stories are so dark but it keeps you reading until the end the good man is hard to find storie is one of the best in this book.

Great book. As described. Great communication from seller and customer service. Fast ship.

Unfortunately, the book is in pieces and difficult to read since it fell apart when I started to read it.

Flannery O'Connor is, in my opinion, the best fiction writer of the 20th century, and her prose style has been a major influence on my own. The majority of the stories are religious in nature. Several are about race relations. She was Roman Catholic, but most of her stories are about the salvation of protestants, often far-out ones, usually without them embracing her own church. When asked why her stories were so depressing, she answered, "All my stories are about salvation. How can that be depressing?" When a lady wrote her that her stories did not lift up her heart after a hard day at work, she replied, "If your heart was in the right place, it would be lifted up." She was herself Southern, and nearly all of her stories take place in the South, whose culture she captured. She once said, "The South may not be Christ-centered, but it is certainly Christ-haunted." Her characters contain such people as one who gets a tattoo of God on his back, one who founds The Church of God without God, and a Bible salesman who cares nothing about the Bible.

I bought this book based on the reviews, which were very good. After reading 5 or 6 of the stories, I wasted my money and time. Maybe this author is a great 20th Century writer, but I wouldn't spend time on reading these stories. With an older "Alfred Hitchcock" kind of content, the repeated "n" word, and stories that while might reflect the time or the realistic baseness of humanity, it's not the kind of material that I find uplifting - and maybe that is her point!

Flannery O'Connor was a highly distinctive American writer, and many of these stories are unlike anything I've ever read by other writers, even other "Southern Gothic" writers. A great book.

I'm taking a writing course at university and learned Flannery was the American Gothic inspiration for writers like Stephen King. However I found her stories evoked emotion and thought and taught me about writing but the stories are so depressing that after reading book over two nights I was so depressed it took me a whole day to feel positive about life. I did learn to be less irritated at my kooky mother

I'm a huge fan of short stories and these are some of the best...

I'm Looking foreward to reading it.

Good introduction to Flannery O'Connor.