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Wheat that Springeth Green by J.F. Powers

Wheat that Springeth Green

By J.F. Powers
Introduction by Katherine A. Powers

By J.F. Powers
Introduction by Katherine A. Powers

By J.F. Powers
Introduction by Katherine A. Powers

By J.F. Powers
Introduction by Katherine A. Powers

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May 31, 2000 | ISBN 9780940322240

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Nov 21, 2012 | ISBN 9781590176580

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    About 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 cliché and an unfailing eye for the kitsch that clutters up our lives. This funny and very moving novel about the making and remaking of a priest is one of his finest achievements.

    About 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 novel about the making and remaking of a priest is one of his finest achievements.

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    Product Details

    Category: Spiritual Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $19.95
    Published by NYRB Classics
    May 31, 2000 | 352 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780940322240

    Category: Spiritual Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by NYRB Classics
    Nov 21, 2012 | 352 Pages | ISBN 9781590176580

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    Praise

    “Jim Powers was a great old Irish master who God plopped down in Minnesota as a joke, a dark wit on the prairie, and he left behind a small satchel of unforgettable writing.” — Garrison Keillor

    “There is not a misplaced comma, not a wrong word…Powers set up his sentences to explode at the end, so that there are marvelous little internal combustions going off like firecrackers all over the page.” — Donna Tartt, Harpers

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