- Paperback: 226 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber (1980)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571116124
- ISBN-13: 978-0571116126
- Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.4 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 451,650 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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wise blood,
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This review is from: Wise Blood (Paperback)
I wish I'd discovered Flannery O'Connor years ago. Wonderful Southern Gothic writing/plot etc,
Deals with the church, chicanery & non believers. Some similarities with Faulkner - ie written dialogue in vernacular & literary descriptions of the story. Some people hate Faulkner, I love his style & narrative skill. Flannery O'Connor died young of lupus disease, a great loss to all of us.
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I have long wanted to read something of Flannery O'Connor's and am glad I now have read her masterpiece. It is a strange and sad story of the far fringes of Christian faith and what degeneracy happens when this goes wrong. Flannery writes in a spare, pure style, capturing the speech and starkness of the deep South and its mentality. Highly recommended.
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Wise Blood; Flannery O' Connor,
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Flannery O'Connor is an author whose writing I have always wanted to explore. Her writing style has been categorised as `Southern Gothic' being influenced by her home environment of the American deep south of the 1940s and 1950s. Wise Blood offers her interpretation of the religious fervor that existed in the old South. The novels main character is Hazel Motes, a young man who has been raised in an extremely conservative God fearing household. However, after serving in the army and fighting for his country Motes returns home with his faith totally destroyed. Flannery O'Connor uses her main character to explore the theme of loss of faith as Motes creates his own church; the Church without Christ. The sole aim of this church being to save people from Christian salvation. As Motes embarks on his itinerant ministry he encounters an eclectic mix of characters and madcap situations that the author uses to portray the complex picture of life in the deep South of her youth.
The narrative is both beautifully descriptive and humorous without being detrimental to the overall message that O'Connor was wanting to portray. One minor point to make is that as the novel was written in 1952 some of the language and imagery could be perceived as offensive in the present day.
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