Name: Wheat That Springeth Green (Nyrb Classics) (en Inglés)
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Author: J. F. Powers
ISBN: 9780940322240

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Wheat That Springeth Green (Nyrb Classics) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Nyrb Classics

Autor

J. F. Powers

Año

2000

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

352

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

0.80

ISBN

0940322242

ISBN13

9780940322240

Categorías

Ficción: general y literaria

Wheat That Springeth Green (Nyrb Classics) (en Inglés)

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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.