Wise Blood
1st Edition
A Novel
eBook Features
-
Read Anywhere
Read your book anywhere, on any device, through RedShelf's cloud based eReader.
-
Digital Notes and Study Tools
Built-in study tools include highlights, study guides, annotations, definitions, flashcards, and collaboration.
-
Text-to-Speech Compatible
Have the book read to you!
-
Offline Access
(
100% )
The publisher of this book allows a portion of the content to be used offline.
-
Printing
(
10%
)
The publisher of this book allows a portion of the content to be printed.
Additional Book Details
<p>The American short story master Flannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom.<br><br>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.<br><br>This tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdom gives us one of the most riveting characters in American fiction.</p>
| Sold By | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
|---|---|
| ISBNs | 1466829060, 9781466829060, 9780374530631, 9780374291280 |
| Language | eng |
| Number of Pages | 248 |
| Edition | 1st |