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Wise Blood

By Flannery O'Connor

Release : 2021-04-07

Genre : Classics, Books, Fiction & Literature, Young Adult, Fiction for Young Adults, Classics for Young Adults, Nature in Young Adult Fiction, Culture, Places & People in Young Adult Fiction, Favorite Characters for Young Adults, Coming of Age Fiction for Young Adults, Mysteries for Young Adults, Historical Fiction for Young Adults, Drama, Action & Adventure Fiction for Young Adults, Historical Fiction, Literary Anthologies, Short Stories, Comparative Literature , Family & Relationships in Young Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Action & Adventure, Fairy Tales, Myths & Fables, Essays, Light Novels

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Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is a 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 named 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 Hawkes, Hazel Motes founds The Church of God 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 wisdoms gives us one of the most riveting characters in twentieth-century American fiction.