Wise blood.
Edition: [2nd ed.]
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Description: "Tells the story of Hazel Motes of Eastrod, Tennessee. After release from the army at twenty-two, he comes to a Southern city where he falls under the spell of Asa Hawks, a "blind" street preacher who is led around by his degenerate daughter, Sabbath Lily Hawks, age fifteen. In his struggle to outpreach and outfox Asa Hawks, Hazel founds his own religion, "The Church Without Christ", and announces his mission: "I'm member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way". It is Enoch Emery, a boy with "wise blood, like his daddy", who discovers for Hazel a manger-child in a building labeled Mvsevm."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Originally published New York: Harcourt, 1952.