Wise Blood

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.

bronson Pinchot Turns In A Virtuosic Performance Of O'connor's Darkly Comic Classic First Novel. After Serving A Stint In The Army, Hazel Motes Finds Himself Adrift, Alone, And Rent By Spiritual Confusion. Pinchot's Narration Is Superb: Dynamic, Well Paced, And Infused With A Perfect Southern Drawl. Instead Of Simply Creating Voices For The Characters, Pinchot Embodies Them. His Hazel Is Nasty, Nasally, And Angry; His Enoch Emery Boasts A Congested Twang; And The Entire Cast Is Likewise Brought To Life By Pinchot's Precise And Perceptive Characterizations And His Brilliant Evocation Of O'conner's Grotesqueries. A Farrar, Straus, And Giroux Paperback. (aug.)