The Stories of J.F. Powers

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J.F. Powers belongs in the succession of outstanding writers -- among them Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver -- who have given the short story an unmistakably American cast. In three slim collections of perfectly crafted and often very funny stories, brought together here in a single volume for the first time, Powers's great subject is the life of priests in Chicago and the small towns of the Midwest. Powers's very 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.