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SUMMARY:Classics Book Discussion: Wise Blood
DESCRIPTION:The Classics Book Discussion Group meets on the last Wednesday 
 of every month at 7 PM. Registration is not required. \n\nApril: Wise Blood 
 (1952)\, by Flannery O'Connor\n\nWise Blood is the story of Hazel Motes\, a 
 twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his inborn\, 
 desperate fate. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher named 
 Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter\, Sabbath Lily. In 
 an ironic\, malicious gesture of his own non-faith\, and to prove himself a 
 greater cynic than Hawks\, Motes founds the Church Without Christ\, but is 
 still thwarted in his efforts to lose God. He meets Enoch Emery\, a young 
 man with "wise blood\," who leads him to a mummified holy child and whose 
 crazy maneuvers are a manifestation of Motes's existential struggles. This 
 tale of redemption\, retribution\, false prophets\, blindness\, blindings\, 
 and wisdom gives us one of the most riveting characters in American 
 fiction.
LOCATION:Conference Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Allie Joyner":MAILTO:ajoyner@smfpl.org
CATEGORIES:Adult Program, Book Discussion
CONTACT;CN="Allie Joyner":MAILTO:ajoyner@smfpl.org
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