Wise blood
(2010, original release: 1952)

Nonfiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : Blackstone Audio, Inc. : Made available through hoopla, 2010
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 56 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781441753731 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT10025395, 1441753737 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 10025395
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Read by Bronson Pinchot

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 innate, desperate faith. He falls under the spell of a ?blind? street preacher named Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-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

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Additional Credits