Everything That Rises Must Converge (1961) [Short Story]
by Flannery O'Connor
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Summary
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An encounter in a waiting room pushes a woman to question her own self-satisfied view of the equities of life.
Original title: Everything That Rises Must Converge
Original languages:
English
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Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Fiction: A Harpercollins Pocket Anthology (1993) [Anthology]
Authors: Edgar Allan Poe
, William Faulkner
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
, Ernest Hemingway
, Shirley Jackson
, James Joyce
, D. H. Lawrence
, Anton Chekhov
, John Steinbeck
, Alice Walker
, Edith Wharton
, Willa Cather
, Katherine Anne Porter
, Eudora Welty
, John Cheever
, John Updike
, Gabriel García Márquez
, Louise Erdrich
, Chinua Achebe
, Margaret Atwood
, Ralph Ellison
, Doris Lessing
, Joyce Carol Oates
, Flannery O'Connor
, Kate Chopin
, Guy de Maupassant
, Raymond Carver
, Bobbie Ann Mason
, Alice Munro
, Richard Wright
, Denise Chávez
Notes:
- First published in New World Writing, vol. 19, 1961
- Appears in The Best American Short Stories of 1962
- Appears in Prize Stories 1963: The O. Henry Awards
- Appears in First-Prize Stories, 1919-1963
- Appears as the first story in the collection of the same name
- Appears in The Complete Stories (With all of the author's other short works)
- Image: Michael Meyer, Highway to Heaven
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