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FSG Classics Ser.: Wise Blood : A Novel by Flannery O'Connor (2007, Trade Paperback)

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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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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374530637
ISBN-13
9780374530631
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57114700

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Book Title
Wise Blood : a Novel
Author
Flannery O'Connor
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
8.1 Oz

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This is a tale in which pathos tips into pathology and violence, answered by a penance of self-mutilation and suffering. Yet the prose is absolutely brilliant, sentence by sentence, simile by simile, and so relentlessly inventive it feels comic., "I was more impressed by "Wise Blood than any novel I have read for a long time. Her picture of the world is literally terrifying. Kafka is almost the only one of our contemporaries who has achieved such effects. I have tremendous admiration for the work of this young writer."--Caroline Gordon "No other major American writer of our century has constructed a fictional world so energetically and forthrightly charged by religious investigation."--Brad Leithauser, "The New Yorker, "This is a tale in which pathos tips into pathology and violence, answered by a penance of self-mutilation and suffering. Yet the prose is absolutely brilliant, sentence by sentence, simile by simile, and so relentlessly inventive it feels comic." - Marilynne Robinson, New York Times Book Review "No other major American writer of our century has constructed a fictional world so energetically and forthrightly charged by religious investigation." - Brad Leithauser, The New Yorker "I was more impressed by Wise Blood than any novel I have read for a long time. Her picture of the world is literally terrifying. Kafka is almost the only one of our contemporaries who has achieved such effects. I have tremendous admiration for the work of this young writer." - Caroline Gordon, I was more impressed by Wise Blood than any novel I have read for a long time. Her picture of the world is literally terrifying. Kafka is almost the only one of our contemporaries who has achieved such effects. I have tremendous admiration for the work of this young writer., "No other American writer of our century has constructed a fictional world so energetically and forthrightly charged by religious investigation." -Brad Leithauser, The New Yorker "I was more impressed by Wise Blood than any novel I have read for a long time. [O'Connor's] picture of the world is literally terrifying." -Caroline Gordon, "This is a tale in which pathos tips into pathology and violence, answered by a penance of self-mutilation and suffering. Yet the prose is absolutely brilliant, sentence by sentence, simile by simile, and so relentlessly inventive it feels comic." -- Marilynne Robinson, New York Times Book Review "No other major American writer of our century has constructed a fictional world so energetically and forthrightly charged by religious investigation." -- Brad Leithauser, The New Yorker "I was more impressed by Wise Blood than any novel I have read for a long time. Her picture of the world is literally terrifying. Kafka is almost the only one of our contemporaries who has achieved such effects. I have tremendous admiration for the work of this young writer." -- Caroline Gordon, No other major American writer of our century has constructed a fictional world so energetically and forthrightly charged by religious investigation.
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Fsg Classics Ser.
Dewey Edition
20

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by pasturederelictAug 03, 2013
not so wise and somewhat bloody
A very dark novel about personal struggle, of struggle with sin and guilt and penance. Not every reader will find the end satisfying. Well-written though somewhat profane, the subject matter stays with the reader well-after finishing.
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