J.F. Powers

• Aug-1988
• / General Fiction

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 lif...

• Dec-1991
• / General Fiction

• Apr-2000
• / General Fiction

Hailed by Frank O'Connor as one of "the greatest living storytellers," 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 ...

• Jun-2000
• / Literary

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERA charming -- but morally ambiguous -- priest is banished to a Minnesota retreat house in this “supremely funny” novel with prose and dialogue “as sharp as anything in Flannery O’Connor” (Publishers Weekly).The her...

• Nov-2012
• / Christian

Hailed by Frank O’Connor as one of “the greatest living storytellers,” 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 c...