Wise Blood Lib/E (CD-Audio)

from susanamper

O'Connor writes very weird stories and mostly I like them all. Set in the post war war II south, the novel is peopled by strange characters. The protagonist is Hazel Motes, and he is struggling against his faith. He wants to believe there is no Christ, but eventually Christ is not to be denied. A...

from William345

Hazel Motes gets out of the army and arbitrarily goes to a generic southern city to play out his damage. He has lost his father and mother and grandfather. While traveling on a sleeper to the city he has a dream in which each in turn manage to spring out of their coffins, miraculously alive. Then...

from JMlibrarian

Off its hinges. A typical quote: "To his mind, an opportunity to insult a successful ape came from the hand of Providence." The message seems to be: if Hazel and Enoch can't be redeemed somehow then none of us can. I'm on board with that.

from the_terrible_trivium

I find that it goes a bit pear-shaped by the end, but the first half is as gripping and profoundly ODD as anything I've ever read. Really, bits and pieces of this novel are permanently ingrained in my consciousness, never matter its flaws.

from jmx

Hazel "Haze" Motes, a 22-year-old, has just returned from the war and becomes a preacher of the Church of Truth Without Christ, a church of his own creation that he uses to spread words against God, judgement, sin or evil.This is a unique work of "low comedy and high seriousness", where a feeling...