Wise Blood (FSG Classics)

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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.

Features

• Author: O'Connor, Flannery.
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Pages: 256
• Publication Date: 2007-03-06
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: Paperback
• MSRP: 15
• ISBN13: 9780374530631
• ISBN: 0374530637
• Other ISBN: 9781466829060
• Other ISBN Binding: printisbncanonical
• Language: en
• Store Location: General Fiction
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