![]() ![]() ![]() Julian's mother attends a weekly exercise session at the local YMCA but is wary of riding the bus by herself after the recent racial integration of the city's transportation system. The story's protagonist is a recent college graduate and aspiring writer named Julian who lives with his mother in an unnamed Southern city. The short story that lends its name to the 1965 short story collection was first published in the 1961 issue of New World Writing. " Parker's Back", the collection's only completely new story, was a last-minute addition. " Judgment Day" is a dramatically reworked version of " The Geranium", which was one of O'Connor's earliest publications and appeared in her graduate thesis at the University of Iowa. Henry Awards: " Greenleaf" (1957), "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (1963), and " Revelation" (1965). Of the volume's nine stories, seven had been printed in magazines or literary journals prior to being collected, including three that won O. The collection was published posthumously in 1965 and contains an introduction by Robert Fitzgerald. The collection's eponymous story derives its name from the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. ![]() Everything That Rises Must Converge is a collection of short stories written by Flannery O'Connor during the final decade of her life. ![]()
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