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.
Title
Wise Blood
Price
$17.00
SKU
9780374530631
Wise Blood
$17.00
Description
ISBN
9780374530631
Publisher
Publication Date
March 6, 2007
Binding
Paperback
Item Condition
New
Language
English
Ages
0-0
Pages
256
Series
FSG Classics
Keywords
Fiction | Literary; Fiction | Southern; Fiction | World Literature | American - 20th Century