Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor
First published in 1949
For Regina
Author's Note to the Second Edition
Wise Blood has reached the age of ten and is still alive. My critical powers are just sufficient to determine this, and I am gratified to be able to say it. The book was written with zest and, if possible, it should be read that way. It is a comic novel about a Christian malgré lui, and as such, very serious, for all comic novels that are any good must be about matters of life and dea ...