Wise Blood: A Novel

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Wise Blood Flannery OConnors 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 innate desperate faith. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher names 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 Hawks Hazel Motes founds the 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 Hazels existential struggles. This tale of redemption retribution false prophets blindness blindings and wisdom gives us one of the most consuming characters in modern fiction.