{"product_id":"wise-blood-9780374530631-new","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\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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":"FARRAR STRAUSS \u0026 GIROUX","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":52598774825250,"sku":"9780374530631-new","price":16.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9780374530631.jpg?v=1789959995","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/wise-blood-9780374530631-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}