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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Inc., The
ISBN: 0940322234
Release Date: Jan 4, 1997
| |  | | | In Brief
Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction
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 as various 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 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 novels-Morte D'Urban, which won the National Book Award, and Wheat 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.
Katherine A. Powers is the eldest of J.F. Powers's five children. She writes a literary column for the Boston Sunday Globe and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her two sons.
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Father Urban, a man of the cloth, 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.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
Powers's satiric masterpiece, which won the National Book Award for fiction in 1963, describes a displaced priest's travels down the back roads of Minnesota. The novel shows "what comic realism can do: how it attends to the human exception, how it scathes our pretensions and blesses our weaknesses"—James Wood, The New Yorker
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