Wise Blood: A Novel (FSG Classics) – Paperback

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Wise Blood: A Novel (FSG Classics)Author: O’Connor, FlanneryPublication Date: 03\/06\/2007Format: PaperbackThe Passengers On The Train To Taulkinham Show Mixed Reactions When Haze Questions Their Belief In Jesus. 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. — Publisher’s Description Flannery O’connor.