Wise blood

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 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 manoeuvres 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.