Description
Title: Wise Blood
Author: O’CONNOR FLANNERY
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/08/2008
Imprint: FABER & FABER
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
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 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 manoeuvres 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.
ISBN: 9780571241309
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 176