{"product_id":"wise-blood-a-novel-fsg-classics","title":"Wise Blood: A Novel (FSG Classics)","description":"The American short story master Flannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWise 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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdom gives us one of the most riveting characters in American fiction.","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47824987095266,"sku":"MTO-MACMILLAN-2026-05-22-8.10-611","price":30.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/9898\/5881\/files\/book_110_pxcPjaDAv.jpg?v=1779550301","url":"https:\/\/layitflat.com\/products\/wise-blood-a-novel-fsg-classics","provider":"Lay it Flat Publishing Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}