

Wise Blood
Author: Flannery O'Connor
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Unabridged: 4 hr 56 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 07/13/2010
Categories: Fiction
Author: Flannery O'Connor
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Unabridged: 4 hr 56 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 07/13/2010
Categories: Fiction
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.
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
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
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
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