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3) Wise blood
Author
Pub. Date
[1952]
Language
English
Description
A young war veteran who returns to a Tennessee mountain town to found a new religion blinds himself with quicklime and in dying finds his own salvation.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
Pub. Date
1960
Physical Desc
243 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Tarwater, a fourteen year old boy, lives with his great-uncle in a cottage in the woods. When the great-uncle dies of old age at the breakfast table, the boy puts the cottage on fire and runs off. After a while he decides to go to his uncle Rayber, a schoolteacher.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 39
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
1281 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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