Wise Blood: A Novel by Flannery O'Connor (English) Paperback Book

Description: Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor "Wise Blood," Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. Focused on the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate fate, this tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdoms gives us one of the most riveting characters in twentieth-century American fiction. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The American short story master Flannery OConnors haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom. Wise Blood, Flannery OConnors astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his inborn, desperate fate. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher named Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter, Sabbath Lily. In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own non-faith, and to prove himself a greater cynic than Hawks, Motes founds the Church Without Christ, but is still thwarted in his efforts to lose God. He meets Enoch Emery, a young man with "wise blood," who leads him to a mummified holy child and whose crazy maneuvers are a manifestation of Motess existential struggles. This tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdom gives us one of the most riveting characters in American fiction. Author Biography Flannery OConnor (1925-1964) was one of Americas most gifted writers. She wrote two novels, Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away, and two story collections, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge. Her Complete Stories, published posthumously in 1972, won the National Book Award that year, and in a 2009 online poll it was voted as the best book to have won the award in the contests 60-year history. Her essays were published in Mystery and Manners and her letters in The Habit of Being. Review "This is a tale in which pathos tips into pathology and violence, answered by a penance of self-mutilation and suffering. Yet the prose is absolutely brilliant, sentence by sentence, simile by simile, and so relentlessly inventive it feels comic." --Marilynne Robinson, New York Times Book Review "No other major American writer of our century has constructed a fictional world so energetically and forthrightly charged by religious investigation." --Brad Leithauser, The New Yorker "I was more impressed by Wise Blood than any novel I have read for a long time. Her picture of the world is literally terrifying. Kafka is almost the only one of our contemporaries who has achieved such effects. I have tremendous admiration for the work of this young writer." --Caroline Gordon Long Description "Wise Blood," Flannery O Connors astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. Focused on the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate fate, this tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdoms gives us one of the most riveting characters in twentieth-century American fiction. Review Quote "This is a tale in which pathos tips into pathology and violence, answered by a penance of self-mutilation and suffering. Yet the prose is absolutely brilliant, sentence by sentence, simile by simile, and so relentlessly inventive it feels comic." -- Marilynne Robinson, New York Times Book Review "No other major American writer of our century has constructed a fictional world so energetically and forthrightly charged by religious investigation." -- Brad Leithauser, The New Yorker "I was more impressed by Wise Blood than any novel I have read for a long time. Her picture of the world is literally terrifying. Kafka is almost the only one of our contemporaries who has achieved such effects. I have tremendous admiration for the work of this young writer." -- Caroline Gordon Details ISBN0374530637 Author Flannery OConnor Short Title WISE BLOOD Language English ISBN-10 0374530637 ISBN-13 9780374530631 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Year 2007 Residence GA, US Birth 1925 Death 1964 Series FSG Classics DOI 10.1604/9780374530631 Subtitle A Novel Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2007-03-06 NZ Release Date 2007-03-06 US Release Date 2007-03-06 UK Release Date 2007-03-06 Imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pages 256 Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication Date 2007-03-06 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:43655816;

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