Literary Fiction · DarkThirty-one stories, including every story from A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge
The Complete Stories
Her two story collections together with several previously unavailable stories
Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the collection on November 8, 1971. It lists 31 stories and includes all of those from A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge, plus several previously unavailable ones. Among the notable stories are "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," "Everything That Rises Must Converge," "The Displaced Person," "Greenleaf" and "Parker's Back."
More about this book
Who
Many characters across thirty-one stories.
World
Southern Gothic fiction.
What makes it different
It combines two earlier collections with several previously unavailable stories, 556 pages in all.
Feel
Dark and compact stories in a large volume. It won the 1972 National Book Award for Fiction and in a 2009 online poll was voted "Best of the National Book Awards."
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- The Complete StoriesWikipedia