Wheat That Springeth Green - Couverture rigide

Powers, J. F.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0701133368 ISBN 13 : 9780701133368

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 1988

Synopsis

A novel on human fallibility, set in the American Middle West, by an American author with a reputation as a great comedian with a ministering touch, who can count among his admirers such literary giants as Evelyn Waugh, Flannery O'Connor and Anthony Burgess. J.F. Powers, who lives in Minnesota, won the National Book Award for "Morte D'Urban" (1962). His work also includes the short-story collection "Prince of Darkness", "The Presence of Grace" and "Look How the Fish Live". He is the recipient of many honours and awards and teaches at the University of St John's, Minnesota.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

J. F. Powers (1917-1999) was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, and studied at Northwestern University while holding a variety of jobs in Chicago and working on his writing. He published his first stories in The Catholic Worker and, as a pacifist, spent thirteen months in prison during World War II. Powers was the author of three collections of short stories and two novels—Morte D’Urban, which won the National Book Award, andWheat That Springeth Green—all of which have been reissued by New York Review Books. He lived in Ireland and the United States and taught for many years at St John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Katherine A. Powers is a long-time champion of the novels of Raymond Kennedy. She is a freelance book critic and writes a literary column for the Barnes and Noble Review. She is the editor of a forthcoming volume, Suitable Accommodations: The Letters of J. F. Powers, 1942 - 1963. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0701133368
• ISBN 13: 9780701133368
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 335
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible