Wise Blood is an extremely difficult Catholic novel. The story has a certain violent momentum, but most of the action takes place inside the mind of its variously mad and damaged characters, obsessing over redemption, suffering and the spiritual world. Everything and everyone in it is ugly. Even the cars are battered, slow, greasy and polluted. Sex, meanwhile, is physically and morally abhorrent, and carried out with prostitutes or underage girls. Oh, and there's an awful lot of Biblical quotation.
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