Wheat That Springeth Green

J.F. Powers, Katherine A. Powers

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NYRB Classics
15 September 2006

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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 cliche 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.

By: J.F. Powers
Introduction by: Katherine A. Powers
Imprint: NYRB Classics
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 360g
ISBN: 9780940322240
ISBN 10: 0940322242
Pages: 338
Publication Date: 15 September 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Wheat That Springeth Green

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