Wheat That Springeth Green - Hardcover

Powers, J. F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701133368 ISBN 13: 9780701133368

Publisher: 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.

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Review

"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

About the Author

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, and Wheat 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701133368
• ISBN 13: 9780701133368
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 335