The stories of J.F. Powers
By: by J.F. Powers ; introduction by Denis Donoghue.
Contributors: Donoghue, Denis.
Publisher: New York Review Books; NYRB Classics
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 570
Subjects: Catholics -- Fiction.; Clergy -- Fiction.; Middle West -- Religious life and customs -- Fiction.; Middle West -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "J. F. Powers, who died in 1999, stands with Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver among the authors who have given the short story an unmistakably American cast. In three slim collections of stories, published over a period of some thirty years and brought together here in a single volume for the first time. Powers wrote about many things: baseball and jazz, race riots and lynchings, the Great Depression and the flight to the suburbs.

His greatest subject, however - and one that was uniquely his - was the life of priests in Chicago and the Midwest. Powers's thoroughly human priests, who include do-gooders, gladhanders, wheeler-dealers, petty tyrants, and even the odd saint, struggle to keep up with the Joneses in a country unabashedly devoted to consumption."--BOOK JACKET.