{"product_id":"wise-blood-flannery-oconnor-paperback","title":"Wise Blood -- Flannery O'Connor, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe American short story master Flannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\n \u003ci\u003e\n\nWise 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\n\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.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Flannery O'Connor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3\/6\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.2\" H x 5.3\" L x 0.7\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780374530631\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49535805161776,"sku":"9780374530631","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9780374530631_128ac9b5-aa7b-4f35-86cd-784ad62f67ad.jpg?v=1774990875","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/wise-blood-flannery-oconnor-paperback","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}