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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0374505845
ISBN-13: 9780374505844
Aug 1996
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Synopsis
World War II veteran Hazel Motes meets up with a street preacher named Asa Hawks and his daughter, Lily. Revelling in his own unbelief, Hazel creates his own rival church, the "Church of Christ Without Christ," and travels the South preaching his anti-gospel. Eventually, after various instances of self-mutilation and torture, including blindness and a beating by the police, he destroys himself in atonement for some obscure sin. O'Connor's strange and powerful novel is a masterly creation of a ludicrous but tragic figure, and a stunning evocation of the postwar South.
| Size | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 8.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[T]his first novel...introduces its author as a writer of power. There is in Flannery O'Connor a fierceness of literary gesture, an angriness of observation, a facility for catching, as an animal eye in a wilderness, cunningly and at one sharp glance, the shape and detail and animal intention of enemy and foe. The world of 'Wise Blood' is one of clashing in a wilderness....Miss O'Connor's style is tight to choking and as direct and uncompounded as the order to a firing squad to shoot a man against a wall....One cannot take this book lightly or lightly turn away from it, because it is inflicted upon one in the same way its people take their lives--like an indefensible blow delivered in the dark."
Goyen
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