Wise Blood
  • Published:
    Mar-2007
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  • Main Genre:
    Christian
  • Pages:
    256
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The American short story master Flannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom.

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.

This tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdom gives us one of the most riveting characters in American fiction.
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    • First Edition
    • Mar-2007
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0374530637
    • ISBN13: 9780374530631
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    • Jan-1962
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0374505845
    • ISBN13: 9780374505844
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    • Jan-2001
    • Signet
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0451010299
    • ISBN13: 9780451010292
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    • Apr-2008
    • Faber and Faber (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0571241301
    • ISBN13: 9780571241309
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    • Jan-1962
    • Turtleback Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1417633816
    • ISBN13: 9781417633814
    • Library Binding
    •  
    • Mar-2007
    • Turtleback Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 141779285X
    • ISBN13: 9781417792856
    • Library Binding
    •  
    • Mar-2007
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Mar-2007
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1466829060
    • ISBN13: 9781466829060
    •  
    • Mar-2007
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Mar-2007
    • Faber and Faber (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 057126610X
    • ISBN13: 9780571266104
    •  
    • Aug-2010
    • Playaway
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1441753680
    • ISBN13: 9781441753687
    •  
    • Aug-2010
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1441753702
    • ISBN13: 9781441753700
    •  
    • Aug-2010
    • Blackstone Audio, Inc.
    • Audible
    •  
    • Aug-2010
    • Playaway
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 1441753672
    • ISBN13: 9781441753670
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    • Aug-2010
    • Playaway
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1441753710
    • ISBN13: 9781441753717



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