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Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
Wise Blood
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3.50 10
Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780571241309 (0571241301)
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
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The Book Diva's Reads
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3.0 Wise Blood
3.5 star read
Michael's Book Babble
Michael's Book Babble rated it
4.5 Brilliant and darkly comic
Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood is one of the most memorable first novels I’ve read. In fact, I rank it right up there with Joe Hill’s Heart-Shaped Box. I’ve always been a fan of O’Connor’s stories, but after reading this book it makes me wished she’d written more novels. She has a knack for dark com...
Bettie's Books
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2.0 Wise Blood
bookshelves: winter-20132014, published-1952, tbr-busting-2013, doo-lally Read in January, 2014 Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor.Doo lallyn. americas> southern gothic> georgiareligion/aetheismpug uglyfilm onlypub 1952winter 2013All Hazel Motes needs is a Sharp Suit and hat to perform a modern ve...
Marvin's Bookish Blog
Marvin's Bookish Blog rated it
5.0
In my humble and arguably cynical opinion, The two best novels about the American religious experience are Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis and Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood. Lewis' book is a satiric look at the merging of fundamental Christianity and Capitalism. It's meaning is pretty straight forwa...
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Hazel Motes is trying to find redemption. Although raised a Christian, and still held by its rules and moralizing, he wants to find another way to be saved. Initially, he becomes interested in a blind preacher and his daughter, hoping to become a follower. However, he decides to start preaching on h...
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