{"product_id":"books-wise-blood-by-flannery-o-connor","title":"Wise Blood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe American short story master Flannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Wise 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdom gives us one of the most riveting characters in American fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54419492143377,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780374530631.jpg?v=1787571105","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-wise-blood-by-flannery-o-connor","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}