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Wise Blood
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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.
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- Robert Hiini
- 03-12-2021
Outstanding reading
I liked this book very much. It will need some mulling over. The read is magnificent. Worth it to hear the narrator utter Maud's lines alone.
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- Neville Stern
- 02-10-2023
Excellent in every way
A great introduction to her work, brilliantly performed in an ideal medium for her stories.
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- Dan
- 25-04-2023
Damn
Excellent characterisation! Love the way Flannery writes. If you like the strange characters then this one is for you
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