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Wheat That Springeth Green

Author : J.F. Powers
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590176588
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Wheat That Springeth Green written by J.F. Powers and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 clich? 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.

Wheat that Springeth Green

Author : James Farl Powers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Wheat that Springeth Green written by James Farl Powers and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wheat that Springeth Green

Author : James Farl Powers
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Wheat that Springeth Green written by James Farl Powers and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1988 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power succeeds in conveying the nuts and bolts of a clergyman's life even as he illuminates the hidden corners of his soul.

The Stories of J.F. Powers

Author : J.F. Powers
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590176596
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Stories of J.F. Powers written by J.F. Powers and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Suitable Accommodations

Author : J. F. Powers
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374709688
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Suitable Accommodations written by J. F. Powers and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wry, moving collection of letters from the late J. F. Powers, "a comic writer of genius" (Mary Gordon) Best known for his 1963 National Book Award–winning novel, Morte D'Urban, and as a master of the short story, J. F. Powers drew praise from Evelyn Waugh, Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth, among others. Though Powers's fiction dwelt chiefly on the lives of Catholic priests, he long planned to write a novel of family life, a feat he never accomplished. He did, however, write thousands of letters, which, selected here by his daughter, Katherine A. Powers, become an intimate version of that novel, dynamic with plot and character. They show a dedicated artist, passionate lover, reluctant family man, pained aesthete, sports fan, and appreciative friend. At times wrenching and sad, at others ironic and exuberantly funny, Suitable Accommodations is the story of a man at odds with the world and, despite his faith, with his church. Beginning in prison, where Powers spent more than a year as a conscientious objector, the letters move on to his courtship, marriage, comically unsuccessful attempt to live in the woods, life in the Midwest and in Ireland, an unorthodox view of the Catholic Church, and an increasingly bizarre search for "suitable accommodations," which included three full-scale emigrations to Ireland. Here, too, are encounters with such diverse people as Thomas Merton, Eugene McCarthy, Robert Lowell, Theodore Roethke, Sean O'Faolain, Frank O'Connor, Dorothy Day, and Alfred Kinsey. An NPR Best Book of 2013

The Moviegoer

Author : Walker Percy
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453216251
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Moviegoer written by Walker Percy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this National Book Award–winning novel from a “brilliantly breathtaking writer,” a young Southerner searches for meaning in the midst of Mardi Gras (The New York Times Book Review). On the cusp of his thirtieth birthday, Binx Bolling is a lost soul. A stockbroker and member of an established New Orleans family, Binx’s one escape is the movie theater that transports him from the falseness of his life. With Mardi Gras in full swing, Binx, along with his cousin Kate, sets out to find his true purpose amid the excesses of the carnival that surrounds him. Buoyant yet powerful, The Moviegoer is a poignant indictment of modern values, and an unforgettable story of a week that will change two lives forever. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Walker Percy including rare photos from the author’s estate.

The Sunne In Splendour

Author : Sharon Kay Penman
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429930098
Total Pages : 945 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Sunne In Splendour written by Sharon Kay Penman and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic, magnificent bestselling novel about Richard III, now in a special thirtieth anniversary edition with a new preface by the author In this triumphant combination of scholarship and storytelling, Sharon Kay Penman redeems Richard III—vilified as the bitter, twisted, scheming hunchback who murdered his nephews, the princes in the Tower—from his maligned place in history. Born into the treacherous courts of fifteenth-century England, in the midst of what history has called The War of the Roses, Richard was raised in the shadow of his charismatic brother, King Edward IV. Loyal to his friends and passionately in love with the one woman who was denied him, Richard emerges as a gifted man far more sinned against than sinning. With revisions throughout and a new author's preface discussing the astonishing discovery of Richard's remains five centuries after his death, Sharon Kay Penman's brilliant classic is more powerful and glorious than ever.

Morte d'Urban

Author : J.F. Powers
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 159017660X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Morte d'Urban written by J.F. Powers and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Prince of Darkness and Other Stories

Author : James Farl Powers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Prince of Darkness and Other Stories written by James Farl Powers and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cathedrals of Bone

Author : John C. Waldmeir
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823230627
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Cathedrals of Bone written by John C. Waldmeir and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The metaphor of the Church as a "body" has shaped Catholic thinking since the Second Vatican Council. Its influence on theological inquiries into Catholic nature and practice is well-known; less obvious is the way it has shaped a generation of Catholic imaginative writers. Cathedrals of Bone is the first full-length study of a cohort of Catholic authors whose art takes seriously the themes of the Council: from novelists such as Mary Gordon, Ron Hansen, Louise Erdrich, and J. F. Powers, to poets such as Annie Dillard, Mary Karr, Lucia Perillo, and Anne Carson, to the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley. Motivated by the inspirational yet thoroughly incarnational rhetoric of Vatican II, each of these writers encourages readers to think about the human body as a site-perhaps the most important site-of interaction between God and human beings. Although they represent the body in different ways, these late-twentieth-century Catholic artists share a sense of its inherent value. Moreover, they use ideas and terminology from the rich tradition of Catholic sacramentality, especially as it was articulated in the documents of Vatican II, to describe that value. In this way they challenge the Church to take its own tradition seriously and to reconsider its relationship to a relatively recent apologetics that has emphasized a narrow view of human reason and a rigid sense of orthodoxy.

A Bright Shining Lie

Author : Neil Sheehan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679603808
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book A Bright Shining Lie written by Neil Sheehan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most acclaimed books of our time—the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an enterprise riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a charismatic soldier who put his life and career on the line in an attempt to convince his superiors that the war should be fought another way. By the time he died in 1972, Vann had embraced the follies he once decried. He died believing that the war had been won. In this magisterial book, a monument of history and biography that was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, a renowned journalist tells the story of John Vann—"the one irreplaceable American in Vietnam"—and of the tragedy that destroyed a country and squandered so much of America's young manhood and resources.

Look how the Fish Live

Author : James Farl Powers
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780701206376
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Look how the Fish Live written by James Farl Powers and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1988 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Art of Acting

Author : Dawn Langman
Publisher : Temple Lodge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1906999597
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Acting written by Dawn Langman and published by Temple Lodge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will be invaluable to teachers, acting students and practitioners alike. Langman’s inspired methods, fed by some 45 years of teaching and practice, ensure the highest outcomes for the integration of voice, speech and language as a central ingredient of the actor’s craft. She is the most unique and brilliant master teacher in this area I have ever encountered.’ – Rosalba Clemente, Head of Acting, Drama Centre, Flinders University ‘A rite de passage – working with Langman’s book is an initiation into the practice of “Future Theatre”.’ – Dr Jane Gilmer, Assistant Professor of Drama, VPA, National Institute of Education, Singapore A remarkable achievement that communicates a lifetime of teaching artistry with grace and depth, and, most significantly, reveals the profound spiritual impulses at the heart of Michael Chekhov’s original impulse. A gift for the generations.’ – Dr Diane Caracciolo, Associate Professor of Educational Theatre, Adelphi University Over the past decades there has been a resurgence of interest in Chekhov’s acting technique. The original publishers of his fundamental text, To the Actor, removed most of the author’s references to Rudolf Steiner, but recent studies acknowledge Chekhov’s personal interest in anthroposophy as the source of his artistic inspiration. Dawn Langman explores the fundamentals of Chekhov’s psycho-physical technique and the metaphysical principles on which it is based. She examines this technique in relation to the specific challenges and gifts provided by the actor’s constitution of body, soul and spirit, and in the context of the canon of great poetic and dramatic texts – illuminated by Steiner’s insights into humanity’s evolving consciousness. The Art of Acting lays the foundation for the second and third books in her series, in which Langman explores Rudolf Steiner’s art of speech and its integration with Michael Chekhov’s methodology. Together, these books offer a contemporary, spiritually-enlivened path of development for the actor, in which the combined insights of Steiner and Chekhov lead to new possibilities for the performing arts.

Resurrecting Excellence

Author : L. Gregory Jones
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802832344
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book Resurrecting Excellence written by L. Gregory Jones and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resurrecting Excellence aims to rekindle and encourage among Christian leaders an unselfish ambition for the gospel that shuns both competition and mediocrity and rightly focuses on the beauty, power, and excellence of living as faithful disciples of the crucified and risen Christ. Drawing on ancient traditions and on contemporary voices, L. Gregory Jones offer both a theology of excellence and portraits of pastors, lay leaders, and congregations that embody "a more excellent way."--Publisher's description.

Proverbial Philosophy

Author : Martin Farquhar Tupper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Proverbial Philosophy written by Martin Farquhar Tupper and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Organic Prayer

Author : Nancy L. Roth
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1596270632
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Organic Prayer written by Nancy L. Roth and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We cultivate the earth around us, and the earth, in turn, cultivates our souls. Nancy Roth shares meditations that help us enrich and care for our bonds with God, creation, and our neighbors on the planet.

In Nature's Honor

Author : Patricia Montley
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
ISBN 13 : 9781558964860
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book In Nature's Honor written by Patricia Montley and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on 2005 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nature's Honor explores the eight solar holidays that mark the turning of the Wheel of the Year. Each chapter begins with a history of the holiday--the ways in which it has been celebrated from ancient to modern times, its relationship to other religious and secular celebrations and its cultural and mythological foundations. This history is followed by recommendations for specific activities to celebrate the season that individuals, families or small groups can enjoy. The chapters conclude with formal rituals suitable for use in larger faith communities. These include scripted narration, songs, dramatic enactments, litanies of seasonal blessings, readings from poetry and mythology and suggestions for ceremonial food. In Nature's Honor reconnects the modern spiritual seeker with the earth-centered practices of our ancestors. This work explores the seasonal rituals that celebrate the earth and our connection to it--which is not just physical but profoundly spiritual. FROM THE AUTHOR From the Authorz In writing this book, I discovered the most important theme running through the history of rituals related to the earth's seasons is renewal. The wheel turns and the old season gives way to the new, the old year to the new, the old life to the new. Each planting of seeds promises new possibilities. Each harvest brings sustenance for yet another year. Each fallow time regenerates the life of the soil. The sun deities retreat and return. The grain goddesses are lost and restored. The vegetation gods die and rise again. The cycle of life goes on and on, birth after death after birth. Perhaps what all the rituals celebrate is this ongoing-ness of life: the miraculous natural world that makes it possible and our abiding connection to it. For the ancients, the interdependence was clear. When the people fasted on the eve of a new season's beginning, they purified not just their own bodies, but the land itself. The fires that encouraged the fecundity of the land also made its people fertile. For us moderns distanced from the earth by technology, the interdependence is not as clear. And we are paying the price: in polluted air and water, in soil erosion, in deforestation, in global warming. How different the condition of the planet might be if we allowed ourselves to be renewed at each turning of the wheel of the year, if we took the time periodically to celebrate the beauty and bounty of nature.