Wise Blood, Flannery OConnor
Wise Blood, Flannery OConnor
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Wise Blood

Author: Flannery O'Connor

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 4 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/13/2010

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

Flannery OConnors astonishing and haunting first novel is a classic of twentiethcentury literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twentytwoyearold 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 degenerate fifteenyearold daughter. In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own nonfaith, and to prove himself a greater cynic than Hawks, Hazel founds The Church of God 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 Hazels existential struggles. This tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, and wisdom gives us one of the most riveting characters in American fiction.

About Flannery O'Connor

FLANNERY O’CONNOR (1925–1964) was born in Savannah, Georgia. She earned her MFA at the University of Iowa, but lived most of her life in the South, where she became an anomaly among post–World War II authors: a Roman Catholic woman whose stated purpose was to reveal the mystery of God’s grace in everyday life. Her work—novels, short stories, letters, and criticism—received a number of awards, including the National Book Award. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on March 31, 2024

Foolishness isn’t a vice… It is an attribute of human consciousness… Even after such timeless masterpieces as The Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant and Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam the theme of foolishness remains far from being exhausted and it keeps disturbing our minds. With h......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on February 22, 2019

After reading just a few pages of this book I kept thinking to myself Hazel Motes is doomed. First of all he is the lead character in a Flannery O'Connor novel. The only thing that could be worst is if he were the lead character in a Jim Thompson novel. The poor bastard hasn't got a chance.......more

Goodreads review by Lisa of Troy on March 17, 2024

Glorious cross between Charles Dickens and A Confederacy of Dunces If you want a warm, highly predictable, reverent book with comfy, flat, one-dimensional characters, please put this one down, and we can find you something else to read. Wise Blood is an intense yet thoughtful and humorous thrill ride.......more

Goodreads review by Michael on April 29, 2018

Wise Blood is Flannery O'Connor's first book and it is a beautiful, brutal work of art. We are introduced to Hazel Motes on a train with his army-issued duffel bag being annoying by the woman next to him on the train. He is completely dislocated, as we see in the first sentence: "Hazel Motes sat at a......more