Morte D'Urban
By J.F. Powers
Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick
By J.F. Powers
Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick
By J.F. Powers
Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick
By J.F. Powers
Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick
Category: Spiritual Fiction | Literary Fiction
Category: Spiritual Fiction | Literary Fiction
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$21.95
May 31, 2000 | ISBN 9780940322233
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Nov 21, 2012 | ISBN 9781590176603
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Praise
“D’Urban is a gem—a supremely funny tale about Father Urban, a Midwestern priest who believes in golf, baseball, scotch, and the Roman Catholic Church, perhaps in that order. Fr. Urban’s struggles with the management of a parish are rendered with a comic’s timing, and Powers’s prose and dialogue are as sharp as anything in Flannery O’Connor. Is anyone as funny today? Maybe David Gates; maybe Tom Drury.” —Publishers Weekly
“Superbly comic” — Nancy Pearl, Book Lust
“Each sentence tends to be an event; yet every event, like every firm but fluent sentence, is an open door into the next half—expected, half—shocking encounter….Morte D’Urbanis [J.F. Powers’s] supreme fiction.” — F.W. Dupee
“…[Powers’s] priests were creatures of a vivid, sympathetic, and unerring imagination….” — Andrew Greeley, Commonweal
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