A review by iamericat22
The Complete Stories by Bernard Malamud, Robert Giroux

4.0

I had previously read the collection of stories "Everything That Rises Must Converge," and so the second half of the book (last 9 stories) were a revisit. Reading the full collection, I was able to see the progression of O'Connor's work from simple country tales to dark, profound gut- clenchers about the darker side of life.

This is classic American literature and as haunting as it is beautiful. No happy endings here.