Wise Blood

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Wise Blood

Written by: Flannery O’Connor

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

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Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel is a classic of 20th-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a 22-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 degenerate 15-year-old daughter.

In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own non-faith, 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 Hazel’s existential struggles.

This tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, and wisdom gives us one of the most riveting characters in American fiction.

Flannery O’ConnorBronson PinchotBlackstone Audio, Inc.

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What the critics say

“No other major American writer of our century has constructed a fictional world so energetically and forthrightly charged by religious investigation.” ( The New Yorker)

“There is in Flannery O’Connor a fierceness of literary gesture, an angriness of observation, a facility for catching, as an animal eye in the wilderness, cunningly and at one sharp glance, the shape and detail and animal intention of enemy and foe.” ( The New York Times Book Review)

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This was my first exposure to Flannery O’Connor. Her writing is so immersive, drawing you into the personalities of the characters. I found the story to be dark, unpredictable, humorous, loaded with meaning, sometimes deeper than words. They plot sometimes felt episodic, maybe because it was created from a series of short stories. I was hoping for more from the ending, but it was profound in a way. I was just hoping to see some kind of transformation of the protagonist, if you can even call him that.