Wise Blood Av Flannery O'Connor

<p><i>Wise Blood</i>, Flannery O''Connor''s first novel, is the story of Hazel Motes who, released from the armed services, returns to the evangelical Deep South. There he begins a private battle against the religiosity of the community and in particular against Asa Hawkes, the ''blind'' preacher, and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter. In desperation Hazel founds his own religion, ''The Church without Christ'', and this extraordinary narrative moves towards its savage and macabre resolution. <br><br>''A literary talent that has about it the uniqueness of greatness.'' <i>Sunday Telegraph<br></i><br>''No other major American writer of our century has constructed a fictional world so energetically and forthrightly charged by religious investigation.'' <i>The New Yorker<br><br></i>''A genius.'' <i>New York Times</i></p>