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Title: Wise Blood Condition: New EAN: 9780571241309 ISBN: 9780571241309 Edition: Main Publisher: Faber & Faber Format: Paperback Release Date: 28/02/2008 Item Height: 196mm Item Length: 127mm Item Width: 10mm Item Weight: 150g Author: Flannery O'Connor Language: English ISBN-10: 0571241301 Description: Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's first novel, is the story of Hazel Motes who, released from the armed services, returns to the evangelical Deep South. There he begins a private battle against the religiosity of the community and in particular against Asa Hawkes, the 'blind' preacher, and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter. In desperation Hazel founds his own religion, 'The Church without Christ', and this extraordinary narrative moves towards its savage and macabre resolution.
'A literary talent that has about it the uniqueness of greatness.' Sunday Telegraph
'No other major American writer of our century has constructed a fictional world so energetically and forthrightly charged by religious investigation.' The New Yorker
'A genius.' New York Times Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Genre: Fiction Release Year: 2008 Missing Information?
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