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Wise Blood : A Novel by Flannery O'Connor (2007, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100374530637
ISBN-139780374530631
eBay Product ID (ePID)57114700
Product Key Features
Book TitleWise Blood : a Novel
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
TopicLiterary, Humorous / General
GenreFiction
AuthorFlannery O'Connor
Book SeriesFsg Classics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight8.1 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsThis 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 Edition20
Dewey Decimal813.5/4
SynopsisFlannery 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., 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., "Wise Blood," Flannery O' Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. Focused on the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate fate, this tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdoms gives us one of the most riveting characters in twentieth-century American fiction.
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- Mar 22, 2017
Wis Blood by Flannery O'Connor
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