J.F. Powers

• Aug-1988
• / General Fiction
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Wheat That Springeth Green, J. F. Powers’s beautifully realized final work, is a comic foray into the commercialized wilderness of modern American life. Its hero, Joe Hackett, is a high school track star who sets out to be a saint. But seminary lif...

• Dec-1991
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-2000
• / General Fiction
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Hailed by Frank O'Connor as one of "the greatest living storytellers," J. F. Powers, who died in 1999, stands with Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver among the authors who have given the short story an unmistakably American cast. In ...

• Jun-2000
• / Literary
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The humorous 1963 National Book Award winning novel of a charming aging priest and his morally ambiguous exploits when banished to a Minnesota retreat houseThe hero of J.F. Powers’s comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also ...

• Nov-2012
• / Christian
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Hailed by Frank O’Connor as one of “the greatest living storytellers,” J. F. Powers, who died in 1999, stands with Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and Raymond Carver among the authors who have given the short story an unmistakably American c...