Morte D'Urban (New York Review Books Classics)

Morte D'Urban (New York Review Books Classics)
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Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction.Â One of the greatest Catholic novels of the 20th century! The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambiguity, Urban enjoys a national reputation as a speaker on the religious circuit and has big plans for the future. But then the provincial head of his dowdy religious order banishes him to a retreat house in the Minnesota hinterlands. Father Urban soon bounces back, carrying God's word with undaunted enthusiasm through the golf courses, fishing lodges, and backyard barbecues of his new turf. Yet even as he triumphs his tribulations mount, and in the end his greatest success proves a setback from which he cannot recover. First published in 1962, Morte D'Urban has been praised by writers asÂ diverse as Gore Vidal, William Gass, Mary Gordon, and Philip Roth. This beautifully observed, often hilarious tale of a most unlikely Knight of Faith is among the finest achievements of an author whose singular (and vrey Catholic) vision assures him a permanent place in American literature. About the author: J. F. Powers (1917-1999) was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, and studied at Northwestern University while holding a variety of jobs in Chicago and working on his writing. He published his first stories in The Catholic Worker and, as a pacifist, spent thirteen months in prison during World War II. Powers was the author of three collections of short stories and two novelsâ€”Morte D'Urban, which won the National Book Award, and Wheat That Springeth Greenâ€”all of which have been reissued by New York Review Books. He lived in Ireland and the United States and taught for many years at St John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.
Country USA
Brand New York Review Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780940322233
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2000-05-31
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780140436990

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review Books
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780940322233
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2000-05-31
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780140436990

Morte D'Urban (New York Review Books Classics)

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