Wise Blood - Brossura

O'Connor, Flannery

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0374505845 ISBN 13: 9780374505844

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1996

Riassunto

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 names Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter, Lily Sabbath. In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own non-faith, and to prove himself a greater cynic than Hawks, Hazel Motes founds the The Church 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, blindings, and wisdom gives us one of the most consuming characters in modern fiction.

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L'autore:

Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1925. When she died at the age of thirty-nine, America lost one of its most gifted writers at the height of her powers.

Product Description:

Book by OConnor Flannery

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0374505845
• ISBN 13: 9780374505844
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile