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Wise Blood - (FSG Classics) by Flannery O'Connor (Paperback)

Wise Blood - (FSG Classics) by  Flannery O'Connor (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Flannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom</b> <i><br>Wise Blood</i>, 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"This is a tale in which pathos tips into pathology and violence, answered by a penance of self-mutilation and suffering. Yet the prose is absolutely brilliant, sentence by sentence, simile by simile, and so relentlessly inventive it feels comic." --<i>Marilynne Robinson, New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"No other major American writer of our century has constructed a fictional world so energetically and forthrightly charged by religious investigation." --<i>Brad Leithauser, The New Yorker</i> <p/>"I was more impressed by <i>Wise Blood</i> than any novel I have read for a long time. Her picture of the world is literally terrifying. Kafka is almost the only one of our contemporaries who has achieved such effects. I have tremendous admiration for the work of this young writer." --<i>Caroline Gordon</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Flannery O'Connor</b> (1925-1964) was one of America's most gifted writers. She wrote two novels, <i>Wise Blood</i> and <i>The Violent Bear It Away</i>, and two story collections, <i>A Good Man Is Hard to Find </i> and <i>Everything That Rises Must Converge</i>. Her <i>Complete Stories</i>, published posthumously in 1972, won the National Book Award that year, and in a 2009 online poll it was voted as the best book to have won the award in the contest's 60-year history. Her essays were published in <i>Mystery and Manners</i> and her letters in <i>The Habit of Being</i>.

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