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  <title><![CDATA[Everything That Rises Must Converge]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;Flannery O'Connor was working on &lt;i&gt;Everything That Rises Must Converge&lt;/i&gt; 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.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1965</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Behind the newspaper Julian was withdrawing into the inner compartment of his mind where he spent most of his time. This was a kind of mental bubble in which he established himself when he could not bear to be a part of what was going on around him. From it he could see out and judge but in it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1135575">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[With her previous collection of short stories, <em>A Good Man is Hard to Find</em>, Flannery O'Connor announced herself as a promising and unique literary talent.  That collection, while containing some truly powerful moments, was also uneven, as if the writer were still struggling to find her voice. In <em>Ever...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2370824">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Flannery O'Connor was a master of little details that place the reader squarely in the story. One can even smell the smells in virtually any scene constructed in this collection. It doesn't take long to recognize a pattern of violence in these stories, and I came to dread the inevitable shock as I g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15274079">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is one of my top five favorite books of all time.  it's a collection of short stories. slice-of-life stores (again, my favorite kind).  it's the first book i read that was like this...it gives you this quick peak into the lives of these people.  one story, one day, one hour...<br/><br/>i thin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17302744">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[**Spoiler Alert**  <br/>Don't really give away anything too much in this review, but if you don't like to know anything about a story before you read it you should stay away from this review. <br/><br/>I'll admit it, I read this book because Jacob from Lost was reading it in one scene from the se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58680718">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a collection of short stories that are very moving in their tragedy. As you read from one story to the other, you see new and different characters in different situations, but there's something nibbling at the back of your head that suggests that there's a common theme running through them. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59828105">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.&quot; - Flannery O'Connor. I read this quote before beginning the book and I'm glad I did. This is a collection of nine short s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59316400">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read some mighty fine short fiction in the last month, but I think this was the best. I find it harder and harder to reconcile Flannery O'Connor's extremely staunch, old-school Catholicism with the comically religious folks she brings to life. How could she possibly not be making fun of religio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50820589">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I suspect that I am one of many who picked this book up for the first time because Jacob was shown reading it in the finale of this past season of Lost. Curiosity got the better of me, and I wanted to see how, or even if, the book related to Jacob or Locke or the show in general.<br/><br/>While no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63871742">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[We learn many things from Flannery O'Connor (don't bring a cat on a road trip, for instance), and a real point in this one is &quot;don't be self-righteous.&quot;  Damn, people get knocked down in this book.  My favorite story of the collection is &quot;The Lame Shall Enter First.&quot;  Possibly th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11542520">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An amazing collection of short stories, which is Flannery O'Cononnor's perfected medium as well as a really good example of Southern Gothic literature. Themes of an older generation's ethics and beliefs clashing with the new, but offering no solid moral position, O'Connor handles racism in a perfect...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13238560">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you want to understand the American South then read this book.  You won't read about the greatness of Confederate cavalry or the CSS Virginia, but you will read about life in a poor, painful region where leaving for university means learning to hate the place you grew up and the people who raised...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46921959">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Flannery O'Connor is one of my favorite authors.  Her stories are powerful, sometimes bloody, often sacred, and memorable.  It is difficult for me to describe emotions, so it's difficult for me to describe these stories.  I don't think I have ever 'felt' as much reading anything else.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Flannery O'Conner is, in my opinion, the best American writer of short stories ever.  At least, she's my favorite.  What gets me, besides her sharp irony and characterization, is the relentlessness of the grace that her characters have to come to grips with, often fatally.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Flannery O'Connor is an amazing writer, and each of these nine stories is amazing, even if she tends to get a bit moralistic about moralists (she really, really doesn't seem to like white people who want to help black people -- whether she likes black people at all is another question).  <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51226328">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76431599">
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    <name><![CDATA[Meagan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 01 21:13:55 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm shocked to realize that I think I'm becoming a Flannery athiest.  Or maybe just a Flannery agnostic.  I read her stuff when I was younger and swooned with evil joy.  Now, years later, I finally got around to reading this collection, which had been sitting on my shelf for years, patiently waiting...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76431599">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Flannery O'Connor is the only person that has ever made me want to be Catholic.  (Or religious in any way, for that matter).  &quot;Parker's Back&quot; makes me feel like crying every time.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had high hopes going into this one.  I remember the title story as being better the first time I read it in college and many of the stories follow the same basic pattern - introduce bigoted or naive (or both) Southern characters, create a fairly typical conflict, kill off a character through some ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38883679">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished this during my long time spent in airplanes and at airports flying home from Michigan. It was a good distraction. I read it for creative writing. O'Connor is certainly a talented storyteller. But all of the stories were so sad, and all had pretty much the same exact tone. Maybe she intend...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37275272">more...</a>]]></body>
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