Wise Blood

Religious Literature & Fiction

Author: Flannery O’Connor

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is a 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 named Asa Hawks and his….Read More

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