Morte D'Urban / J.F. Powers ; introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powers, J. F. (James Farl), 1917-1999.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Clergy--Fiction.

Catholic Church.

Clergy.

Genre:

Religious fiction.

Satire.

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

xviii, 336 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, 2000.

Summary:

The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Banished by the envious provincial head of his dowdy religious order to a decrepit retreat house in the Minnesota hinterlands, Urban soon bounces back, carrying God's word with undaunted enthusiasm through the golf courses, fishing lodges, and backyard barbecues of his new turf. And yet even as he triumphs his tribulations mount, and in the end Urban's greatest success proves a setback from which he cannot recover.

Admired by writers as various as Gore Vidal, William Gass, Mary Gordon, and Philip Roth, this beautifully observed, often hilarious tale of a most unlikely knight of faith is among the finest works of an author whose singular vision assures him a permanent place in American literature.

ISBN:

0940322234

OCLC:

42389544