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The Stories of J. F. Powers (New York Review Books Classics)
The Stories of J F Powers - New York Review Books Classics Author:J. F. Powers 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 as one of the authors who have given to the short story an unmistakably modern, American cast. In three slim collections of perfectly crafted stories, published over a period of som... more »e 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. Powers's greatest subject, however--and one that was uniquely his--was the life of priests in Chicago and the flatlands of the Midwest. Powers's very 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. These beautifully written, deeply sympathetic, and very funny stories are an u! nforgettable record of the precarious balancing act that is American life.« less