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A Fine copy in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Book is fresh and appears unread. Jacket with a small chip at the crown and the rear, upper corner, one tear to the front panel repaired with tape on the verso. Jacket a bit soiled, but otherwise a fairly tidy example without any fading to the spine lettering. Flannery O Connor s landmark first novel, of which only 3,000 copies were printed. Wise Blood was the world's introduction to O'Connor's haunting Southern gothic; and it captured a nation's disillusionment following two world wars. Returning to the South after time on the European front of WWII, Hazel Motes struggles to find himself and determine in whom or what to have faith. "He falls under the spell of a 'blind' street preacher Asa Hawks and his degenerate teenage 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" (Giroux). Hailed by the New York Review of Books as "strange, brilliant, original," it appears in The Guardian s list of the top 100 novels of all time, and was later adapted into a 1962 film by John Huston that Vincent Canby called "one of his most stunning." A tale of retribution, false prophets, disillusionment, and redemption. Fine in Very Good + dust jacket.

Wise Blood is Flannery O'Connor's first novel, originally published in 1952, exploring themes of redemption and spirituality through a young man's journey in the American South.