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Les histoires de J.F. Powers (New York Review Books Classics), Powers, J.F., 97809

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ISBN
9780940322226
Book Title
Stories of J. F. Powers
Item Length
7.9in
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
Publication Year
2000
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1.4in
Author
J. F. Powers
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Religious, General, Literary, Humorous / General
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
25 oz
Number of Pages
592 Pages

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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 three slim collections of perfectly crafted 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. These beautifully written, deeply sympathetic, and very funny stories are an unforgettable record of the precarious balancing act that is American life. Table of Contents The Lord's Day The Trouble Lions, Harts, Leaping Does Jamesie He Don't Plant Cotton The Forks Renner The Valiant Woman The Eye The Old Bird, A Love Story Prince of Darkness Dawn Death of a Favorite The Poor Thing The Devil Was the Joke A Losing Game Defection of a Favorite Zeal Blue Island The Presence of Grace Look How the Fish Live Bill Folks Keystone One of Them Moonshot Priestly Fellowship Farewell Pharisees Tinkers

Product Identifiers

Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0940322226
ISBN-13
9780940322226
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1632984

Product Key Features

Book Title
Stories of J. F. Powers
Author
J. F. Powers
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Religious, General, Literary, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
592 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
25 oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps3566.O84a6 2000
Reviews
"Powers is a genuine original. Read him&for the pleasures he bestows of ear and eye, but read him too for the supreme trustworthiness of his vision, a trust earned by impeccable craft, and by a balance perfectly struck between a cutting irony and a beleaguered faith." - Mary Gordon "In these stories, there is a lovely, travelling hesitancy, an obliquity, so that they seem to creep up on the reader&.The strongest of them are surely among the finest written by an American." - James Wood, The New Yorker "To read the first story (“The Lord’s Day�) in this collection is to put down the book with the sense of having read as great a short story as any ever written, and I mean by anybody: by Cheever, Sherwood Anderson, Checkov. What ease they have is in the style: there are no easy morals here, no edifying lessons, but their vigor and correctness make them delightful to read. And while they’re terribly funny - laugh-out-loud funny, in spots - they’re also complex and deeply serious." - Donna Tartt, Harper’s "Power’s particular blend of trenchancy and bleak wit&.Powers’ short pieces remain more effective than his novels. His was a gift of understatement and speed, and at his best his narrative economy is breathtaking&.It is a pleasure to see [them] reissued&in a single volume. For a collection that spans three decades, The Stories of J.F. Powers isn’t especially long, but the work is striking, impelled by a vision that has been cleansed by deep intelligence and powerful subject matter." - Erin McGraw, The Georgia Review, "Powers is a genuine original. Read him…for the pleasures he bestows of ear and eye, but read him too for the supreme trustworthiness of his vision, a trust earned by impeccable craft, and by a balance perfectly struck between a cutting irony and a beleaguered faith." - Mary Gordon "In these stories, there is a lovely, travelling hesitancy, an obliquity, so that they seem to creep up on the reader….The strongest of them are surely among the finest written by an American." - James Wood, The New Yorker "To read the first story ("The Lord's Day") in this collection is to put down the book with the sense of having read as great a short story as any ever written, and I mean by anybody: by Cheever, Sherwood Anderson, Checkov. What ease they have is in the style: there are no easy morals here, no edifying lessons, but their vigor and correctness make them delightful to read. And while they're terribly funny - laugh-out-loud funny, in spots - they're also complex and deeply serious." - Donna Tartt, Harper's "Power's particular blend of trenchancy and bleak wit….Powers' short pieces remain more effective than his novels. His was a gift of understatement and speed, and at his best his narrative economy is breathtaking….It is a pleasure to see [them] reissued…in a single volume. For a collection that spans three decades, The Stories of J.F. Powers isn't especially long, but the work is striking, impelled by a vision that has been cleansed by deep intelligence and powerful subject matter." - Erin McGraw, The Georgia Review
Table of Content
Table of Contents The Lord's Day The Trouble Lions, Harts, Leaping Does Jamesie He Don't Plant Cotton The Forks Renner The Valiant Woman The Eye The Old Bird, A Love Story Prince of Darkness Dawn Death of a Favorite The Poor Thing The Devil Was the Joke A Losing Game Defection of a Favorite Zeal Blue Island The Presence of Grace Look How the Fish Live Bill Folks Keystone One of Them Moonshot Priestly Fellowship Farewell Pharisees Tinkers
Copyright Date
2000
Lccn
99-047885
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21

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