{"product_id":"wise-blood-paperback","title":"Wise Blood - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFlannery O'Connor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe American short story master Flannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWise Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdom gives us one of the most riveting characters in American fiction.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFlannery O'Connor\u003c\/b\u003e (1925-1964) was one of America's most gifted writers. She wrote two novels, \u003ci\u003eWise Blood\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Violent Bear It Away\u003c\/i\u003e, and two story collections, \u003ci\u003eA Good Man Is Hard to Find \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEverything That Rises Must Converge\u003c\/i\u003e. Her \u003ci\u003eComplete Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, published posthumously in 1972, won the National Book Award that year, and in a 2009 online poll it was voted as the best book to have won the award in the contest's 60-year history. Her essays were published in \u003ci\u003eMystery and Manners\u003c\/i\u003e and her letters in \u003ci\u003eThe Habit of Being\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8.22 x 5.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 06, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42134160146567,"sku":"9780374530631","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/4ab864f561c78c2b346fe28d8de8f0b0.webp?v=1732639542","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/wise-blood-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}