Description: The American short story master Flannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom. Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's 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 Motes's existential struggles. This tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdom gives us one of the most riveting characters in American fiction.
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EAN: 9780374530631
UPC: 9780374530631
ISBN: 9780374530631
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Book Title: Wise Blood : a Novel
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Topic: Literary, Humorous / General
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2007
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 8.1 Oz
Item Length: 8.3 in
Author: Flannery O'Connor
Item Width: 5.6 in
Book Series: Fsg Classics Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
