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Book · 1952 · Fiction

Wise Blood

Flannery O'Connor
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Macmillan) · 236 pages
★ 6.5 editorial score

Back from the war, Hazel Motes preaches the Church Without Christ from the hood of a rat-colored car, insisting there was no Fall and nothing needing redemption. O'Connor makes blasphemy sound like faith.

Medium
Novel
Setting
Tennessee
Time
1952Depicts 1940s

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