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The stories of J.F. Powers / by J.F. Powers ; introduction by Denis Donoghue.
Van Pelt Library PS3566.O84 A6 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Powers, J. F. (James Farl), 1917-1999.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Clergy--Fiction.
- Catholic Church.
- Manners and customs.
- Clergy.
- Middle West--Religious life and customs--Fiction.
- Middle West.
- Middle West--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 570 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, 2000.
- Summary:
- J.F. Powers belongs in the succession of outstanding writers -- among them Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver -- who have given the short story an unmistakably American cast. In three slim collections of perfectly crafted and often very funny stories, brought together here in a single volume for the first time, Powers's great subject is the life of priests in Chicago and the small towns of the Midwest. Powers's very human priests, who include do-gooders, gladhanders, wheeler-dealers, petty tyrants, and even the odd saint, struggle to keep up with the Joneses in a country unabashedly devoted to consumption.
- ISBN:
- 0940322226
- OCLC:
- 42413403
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