{"product_id":"wise-blood-a-novel-9780374505844","title":"Wise Blood: A Novel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWise Blood: A Novel\u003c\/strong\u003e by O'Connor, Flannery. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780374505844.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWise 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789809279029,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374505845","price":35.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374505844_0add5a91-3ff6-4865-bb2f-228fffa6f06a.jpg?v=1784763907","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/wise-blood-a-novel-9780374505844","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}