Wise Blood
Hazel Motes comes back from the war to a Tennessee city, buys a hat and a broken-down car, and starts preaching the Church Without Christ from its hood. Around him gather a blind street preacher and his daughter, a boy with a stolen museum mummy, and a rival ready to sell the message back to him. Grace hunting a man who has done everything he can to outrun it.
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- influenced by ↑ The Scarlet Letter
- alludes to ↑ Oedipus Rex
- influenced by ↑ As I Lay Dying
- ↓ A Good Man Is Hard to Find
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