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Original Title: Wheat That Springeth Green
ISBN: 0940322242 (ISBN13: 9780940322240)
Edition Language: English
Setting: Minnesota(United States)
Literary Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1988), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1988)
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Wheat that Springeth Green Paperback | Pages: 352 pages
Rating: 3.85 | 233 Users | 46 Reviews

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Title:Wheat that Springeth Green
Author:J.F. Powers
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 352 pages
Published:May 31st 2000 by NYRB Classics (first published 1988)
Categories:Fiction. Literature. The United States Of America. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novels

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Wheat That Springeth Green, J. F. Powers's beautifully realized final work, is a comic foray into the commercialized wilderness of modern American life. Its hero, Joe Hackett, is a high school track star who sets out to be a saint. But seminary life and priestly apprenticeship soon damp his ardor, and by the time he has been given a parish of his own he has traded in his hair shirt for the consolations of baseball and beer. Meanwhile Joe's higher-ups are pressing for an increase in profits from the collection plate, suburban Inglenook's biggest business wants to launch its new line of missiles with a blessing, and not all that far away, in Vietnam, a war is going on. Joe wants to duck and cover, but in the end, almost in spite of himself, he is condemned to do something right. J. F. Powers was a virtuoso of the American language with a perfect ear for the telling cliché and an unfailing eye for the kitsch that clutters up our lives. This funny and very moving novel about the making and remaking of a priest is one of his finest achievements.

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Powers' second and final novel, and much better than his pretty damn good Morte D'Durban. Wheat took forever to write, which is usually a very bad thing, but in this case Powers somehow makes it work, perhaps because the usual late style stuff (pessimism, grouchiness and so on) fits so well with the late stages of this book. Father Hackett watches his small world change with good humor and dismay; he might not admit it, but it's fairly clear that he himself is just as much to blame for those



Absolutely loved this, as I did Morte D'Urban and Powers's collected stories. So wry and funny and smart and subtle.

"Religion," she said, crossing her legs so he could see her garters but not very well in the dark. "It's like Santa Claus, only it's for old people afraid of dying."So the impressionable Joe Hackett is told when still a kid. He becomes a priest anyway, but not before he learns the secrets hiding in the dark.This turns him not quite jaded, not even entirely cynical. He's just a bit of a stinker, as priests go. Midway through the book, this act was wearing thin. I didn't like Joe. Characters in

i should have been a priest.

J. F. Powers wrote only two novels in his life, this one in 1988 and a national book award winner in l960. I think this may be a better novel, but it covers the same ground - the conflicts between religious and secular concerns. In this novel, the protagonist is a Catholic priest who heads a large suburban church. He has to navigate a treacherous course between individual principles of what he considers "good" and organizational compromise, mostly revolving around money concerns. the novel

2 stars rounded up to 3.Here's a conversation I had trying to convince someone they would like this book. "You might like this. It's about a priest.""What's it about?""A priest. it's funny.""Yeah. But what's is about?""It's about being a priest in the 70s. It's funny."I can't give him an exciting plot (It's about a priest, for Crissake!) so needless to say, he wasn't interested. But he should have been. He loved the Confederacy of Dunces and the 1970s send-up humor is quite similar. He also grew