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Wise Blood

Wise Blood

O'Connor, Flannery

Paperback

Series: FSG Classics

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0374530637
ISBN13: 9780374530631
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Mar 6 2007
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

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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