Rent Wise Blood

Synopsis

World War II veteran Hazel Motes meets up with a street preacher named Asa Hawks and his daughter, Lily. Revelling in his own unbelief, Hazel creates his own rival church, the 'Church of Christ Without Christ,' and travels the South preaching his anti-gospel. Eventually, after various instances of self-mutilation and torture, including blindness and a beating by the police, he destroys himself in atonement for some obscure sin. O'Connor's strange and powerful novel is a masterly creation of a ludicrous but tragic figure, and a stunning evocation of the postwar South.

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