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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Wise Bloodby Flannery Oconnor
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O'Connor is arguably one of the greatest Southern fiction writers of all time, if not the greatest. Wise Blood, her first book, would give the world a taste of the literary genius to come. Both an allegory and a fable about sin and redemption, it is about a man's denial of his identity, the suffering that arises from that denial, and the salvation eventually found. Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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 innate, desperate faith. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher names Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter, Lily Sabbath. In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own non-faith, and to prove himself a greater cynic than Hawks, Hazel Motes founds the 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 Hazel's existential struggles. This tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdom gives us one of the most consuming characters in modern fiction. About the AuthorFlannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1925. When she died at the age of thirty-nine, America lost one of its most gifted writers at the height of her powers. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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