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WISE BLOOD, FLANNERY O'CONNOR'S ASTONISHING AND HAUNTING FIRST NOVEL, IS A CLASSIC OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE. FOCUSED ON THE STORY OF HAZEL MOTES, A TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD CAUGHT IN AN UNENDING STRUGGLE AGAINST HIS INNATE, DESPERATE FATE, THIS TALE OF REDEMPTION...
Recently discharged from service in World War II and surviving on a government pension for unspecified war wounds, Hazel Motes returns to his family home in Tennessee to find it abandoned. Leaving behind a note claiming a chifforobe as his private property, Motes boards a train for Taulkinham. The grandson of a traveling preacher, Motes grew up struggling with doubts regarding salvation and original sin; following his experiences at war, Motes has become an avowed atheist, and intends to spread a gospel of antireligion.