The protagonist of this novel encounters an evangelist who falsely claims to have (*) blinded himself with lye, and has an affair with the evangelist's nymphomaniac daughter, Sabbath Lily.
After the protagonist of this novel follows his father into a carnival tent where a naked obese woman writhes in a coffin, he is smacked by his mother and he puts stones in his shoes and walks for a mile as penance. After seeing a message about the "friendliest bed in town" scrawled on the wall of a bathroom stall, the protagonist of this novel gets involved with a prostitute who insists that his hat makes him look like a preacher. The protagonist of this novel encounters an evangelist who falsely claims to have (*) blinded himself with lye, and has an affair with the evangelist's nymphomaniac daughter, Sabbath Lily. One character in this novel kills the man who plays "Gonga the Gorilla" to take his suit, and steals a mummified dwarf that he believes will become the "new jesus". Enoch Emery tags along with Hazel Motes, who founds the Church Without Christ in, for 10 points, what first novel by Flannery O'Connor?
After the protagonist of this novel follows his father into a carnival tent where a naked obese woman writhes in a coffin, he is smacked by his mother and he puts stones in his shoes and walks for a mile as penance.
Wise Blood