{"product_id":"wise-blood-book-flannery-o-connor-9780374505844","title":"Wise Blood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFlannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWise 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. 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":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49701825052945,"sku":"CIN0374505845G","price":7.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49874865455377,"sku":"CIN0374505845A","price":5.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50026857169169,"sku":"GOR004113495","price":13.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50042147373329,"sku":"CIN0374505845VG","price":7.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374505845.jpg?v=1751102582","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/wise-blood-book-flannery-o-connor-9780374505844","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}