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Wise Blood
Wise Blood
Author: Flannery O'Connor
After release from the army at twenty-two, Hazel Motes of Eastrod, Tennessee, comes to a Southern city where he falls under the spell of Asa Hawks, a "blind" street preacher who is led around by his degenerate daughter, Sabbath Lily Hawks, age fifteen. In his struggle to outpreach and outfox Asa Hawks, Hazel founds his own religion, "The Church...  more »
ISBN: 148535
Publication Date: 1962
Pages: 232
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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this is my favorite book of all time.
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"Wise Blood" by Flannery O'Connor. Southern Gothic, huh? This is far from something I would normally pick up to read. After driving past Andalusia, her family farm, near Milledgeville, Georgia the last 4 1/2 years dropping off or picking up daughters at Georgia College, when a copy showed up in their stack of books to 'get rid of' I took the opportunity to read it.

It's an easy read but it was odd. Easily one of the weirdest things I've ever read (and I've read a bit of Lovecraft)! While the characters are intense and strongly represent portions of social archetypes, I felt like each was missing something. Possibly as O'Connor intended? I found myself distracted trying to figure out how all these odd characters inter-related - only to realize that they didn't, not really. Again, intentional?

"Wise Blood" means intuition, but it is also the 'learning you get from your family'. For all the main characters, their "correct" intuitive decisions open a path to chaos collectively. While blatantly sacrilegious on the surface the book pokes at ethical morality on a deeper level.

Didn't love it. Didn't hate it. Had a hard time connecting to any of the characters. Simple to read except for some regional dialect. [3.5/5]


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