{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Wise Blood","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/wise-blood","description":"Wise Blood, Flannery O\u0026#39;Connor\u0026#39;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 inborn, desperate fate. He falls under the spell of a \u0026quot;blind\u0026quot; street preacher named Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter, Sabbath Lily. In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own non-faith, and to prove himself a greater cynic than Hawks, Motes founds the Church Without Christ, but is still thwarted in his efforts to lose God. He meets Enoch Emery, a young man with \u0026quot;wise blood,\u0026quot; who leads him to a mummified holy child and whose crazy maneuvers are a manifestation of Motes\u0026#39;s existential struggles. This tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdom gives us one of the most riveting characters in American fiction.","author_name":"Flannery O’Connor","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/flannery-o-connor","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/edition/23120200/955deb1b9615c66bb500b8cbab0065f6913c505e.jpeg","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":500}