Wise Blood
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Flannery O'Connor
In Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, a young war veteran who returns to a Tennessee mountain town to found a new religion blinds himself with quicklime and in dying finds his own salvation.
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Author
Flannery O'Connor
Pages
232
Publisher
Macmillan
Published Date
1962
ISBN
0374291284 9780374291280
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"Amazing writer...her stories have staid with me...and still make me wonder"
Mia Burroughs
"All I got from this book is that hate is such a close fixation that sometimes it turns to a sick love without awareness."
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Abigail Spradlin
"Dragged quite a bit, but picked up in the last three chapters."
Chelsea F
"As strange as it is alluring, this off-center Classic is one of the most unforgettable books I have ever read. Stay til the very end...."
Richie Feathers
"Very odd"
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