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J.F. Powers

The Stories of J.F. Powers

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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 Midwes… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Donoghue, Denis
  • ISBN: 978-0-940322-22-6
  • EAN: 9780940322226
  • Produktnummer: 9497628
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
  • Seitenangabe: 592 S.
  • Masse: H19.3 cm x B13.2 cm x D3.8 cm 701 g
  • Gewicht: 701

Über den Autor


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 novels-Morte D'Urban, which won the National Book Award, andWheat That Springeth Green-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.Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

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