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O'Connor, Flannery.
Wise Blood.
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London;
Date of Publication: 1966
Stock Code: 15193
Second British Edition, Octavo, pp., 232. Publisher’s rose red cloth, with gilt titles to spine, in an unclipped dust-jacket. A small line of sunning to the lower spine tip. Sunning to dust-jacket spine, with some toning to both flaps and the lower panel, and a small closed puncture to the upper joint. Flannery O’Connor (1926-1964) was an American novelist and short story writer in the Southern Gothic tradition. O’Connor’s darkly comic works were influenced by Faulkner, Poe, Joyce, and Dostoevsky. Wise Blood was her first novel, originally published in 1952. £80.00