Everything that rises must converge

"[In] this collection, [the author] 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. -Back cover."@en
"A collection of nine stories which explore in microcosm the social and personal tensions of the American South - between youth and age, gentility and poverty, enlightenment and bigotry."@en
"A collection of nine stories in which Flannery O'Connor scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality."@en
"Collection of nine short stories by Flannery O'connor, first 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."@en
"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 ..."@en
"A collection of nine stories, all carrying the author's highly individual stamp. They explore in microcosm the social and personal tensions of the American South - between youth and age, gentility and poverty, enlightenment and bigotry."@en