The stories of J.F. Powers
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Author
Contributions
- Donoghue, Denis. - Contributor
Publication
2000 - New York Review Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
142,500 words, Guess
Page Count
570 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL47516M
- ISBN-100940322226
- OCLC Control Number42413403
- OCLC Control Numberstoriesofjfpower0000powe
- Library of Congress Control Number99047885
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- Goodreads218851
- LibraryThing295177
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3566.O84 A6 2000
Description
"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 three slim collections of stories, published over a period of some thirty years and brought together here in a single volume for the first time. Powers wrote about many things: baseball and jazz, race riots and lynchings, the Great Depression and the flight to the suburbs. His greatest subject, however - and one that was uniquely his - was the life of priests in Chicago and the Midwest. Powers's thoroughly 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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