Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/poetry/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0007 407504 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/poetry/engine/rss.php:0 J.F. Powers - Free Library Land Online - Poetry https://poetry.library.land/ ru J.F. Powers - Free Library Land Online - Poetry DataLife Engine Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life https://poetry.library.land/j-f-powers/71502-suitable_accommodations_an_autobiographical_story_of_family_life.html https://poetry.library.land/j-f-powers/71502-suitable_accommodations_an_autobiographical_story_of_family_life.html Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life
]]> Fri, 01 Nov 2013 23:30:37 +0200 Wheat That Springeth Green https://poetry.library.land/j-f-powers/71501-wheat_that_springeth_green.html https://poetry.library.land/j-f-powers/71501-wheat_that_springeth_green.html Wheat That Springeth Green
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 life and priestly apprenticeship soon damp his ardor, and by the time he has been given a parish of his own he has traded in his hair shirt for the consolations of baseball and beer. Meanwhile Joe's higher-ups are pressing for an increase in profits from the collection plate, suburban Inglenook's biggest business wants to launch its new line of missiles with a blessing, and not all that far away, in Vietnam, a war is going on. Joe wants to duck and cover, but in the end, almost in spite of himself, he is condemned to do something right.

J. F. Powers was a virtuoso of the American language with a perfect ear for the telling clich? and an unfailing eye for the kitsch that clutters up our lives. This funny and very moving...]]> Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:30:37 +0200 The Stories of J.F. Powers (New York Review Books Classics) https://poetry.library.land/j-f-powers/71503-the_stories_of_j_f_powers_new_york_review_books_classics.html https://poetry.library.land/j-f-powers/71503-the_stories_of_j_f_powers_new_york_review_books_classics.html The Stories of J.F. Powers (New York Review Books Classics)
]]> Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:30:37 +0200 Morte D'Urban https://poetry.library.land/j-f-powers/276537-morte_durban.html https://poetry.library.land/j-f-powers/276537-morte_durban.html Morte D'Urban
Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction.
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. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambiguity, Urban enjoys a national reputation as a speaker on the religious circuit and has big plans for the future. But then the provincial head of his dowdy religious order banishes him to a retreat house in the Minnesota hinterlands. Father Urban soon bounces back, carrying God’s word with undaunted enthusiasm through the golf courses, fishing lodges, and backyard barbecues of his new turf. Yet even as he triumphs his tribulations mount, and in the end his greatest success proves a setback from which he cannot recover.
First published in 1962, Morte D’Urban has been praised 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 achievements of an author whose singular vision assures him a permanent place in American literature.
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