WISE BLOOD
WISE BLOOD
Wise Blood, Flannery OConnors first novel, is the story of Hazel Motes who, released from the armed services, returns to the evangelical Deep South. There he begins a private battle against the religiosity of the community and in particular against Asa Hawkes, the blind preacher, and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter. In desperation Hazel founds his own religion, The Church without Christ, and this extraordinary narrative moves towards its savage and macabre resolution. A literary talent that has about it the uniqueness of greatness. Sunday TelegraphNo other major American writer of our century has constructed a fictional world so energetically and forthrightly charged by religious investigation. The New YorkerA genius. New York Times