{"product_id":"9780374530631","title":"Wise Blood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFlannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWise Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 inborn, desperate fate. He falls under the spell of a \"blind\" 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 \"wise blood,\" who leads him to a mummified holy child and whose crazy maneuvers are a manifestation of Motes'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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47025050517744,"sku":"9780374530631","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374530631_p0.jpg?v=1766595471","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374530631","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}