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Wheat that Springeth Green (New York Review Books Classics)
NYRB Classics
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9780940322240
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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.
- | Author: J.F. Powers
- | Publisher: NYRB Classics
- | Publication Date: May 31, 2000
- | Number of Pages: 352 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0940322242
- | ISBN-13: 9780940322240
- Author:
- J.F. Powers
- Publisher:
- NYRB Classics
- Publication Date:
- May 31, 2000
- Number of pages:
- 352 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0940322242
- ISBN-13:
- 9780940322240