Episode 33: Pulling Out the Mote in Flannery O'Connor's WISE BLOOD
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The episode discusses Flannery O'Connor's debut novel, Wise Blood, and its bizarre narrative elements.
Send us Fan Mail More celebrated for her dark, satirical short stories, Flannery O'Connor nevertheless burst on the literary scene in 1952 in her mid-twenties with her debut novel, Wise Blood. The story of a would-be preacher resistant to God's grace, the plot features some of the most bizarre and twisted left turns in American literature: self-blindings with lye, underaged ingenues named Sabbath, stolen mummies and gorilla suits, and enough vehicular homicides and car wreckage to make one re...
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