The contents have been intriguingly divided into eight narrative
threads that influenced and informed O'Connor's oeuvre. War
includes the famous 'Guests of the Nation', set during the Irish
War of Independence; Childhood draws on autobiographical writings
to present a revealing picture of the author as a boy, the only
child of an alcoholic father and doting mother; Writers bears
witness to his literary debt to Yeats and Joyce. The stories in
Lonely Voices movingly demonstrate O'Connor's theory that in this
genre can be achieved 'something we do not often find in the novel
- an intense awareness of human loneliness'; yet they are
counterparted by his wonderfully polyphonic tales of family,
friendship and rivalry in Better Quarrelling. In Ireland come
poems, stories and articles inspired by the native land he loved
but never sentimentalized, while from Abroad the writer in exile
discourses upon universally relevant themes of emigration,
hardship, absence and return. Finally, Last Things contains
O'Connor's thoughts on religion, the church, the soul and its
destiny, but remains above all a celebration of humanity 'who for
me represented all I should ever know of God'.
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