Volume 5, Number 4 · September 30, 1965
Flannery O'Connor's Stories
By Irving Howe
Everything That Rises Must Converge
by Flannery O'Connor
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 269 pp., $4.95
On and off these last months I have been fussing in my mind with Miss O'Connor's stories, unable to reach that certainty of judgment which, we all know, is the established trade mark of the modern critic. The skill and ambition of these stories are not lost upon me, yet I hesitate fully to join in the kind of praise they have won from respected critics.
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