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 named Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter. In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own non-faith, and to prove himself a greater cynic than Hawks, Hazel founds The Church of God 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 Hazel's existential struggles. This tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, and wisdom gives us one of the most riveting characters in American fiction.
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- Flannery O'Connor - Author
- Bronson Pinchot - Narrator
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781481553865
- File size: 142246 KB
- Release date: July 13, 2010
- Duration: 04:56:20
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- ISBN: 9781481553865
- File size: 142267 KB
- Release date: August 3, 2010
- Duration: 04:56:20
- Number of parts: 5
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Lexile® Measure:920
Text Difficulty:4-5