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Wheat that Springeth Green

J.F. Powers

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

Rating: 3.85 | 233 Users | 46 Reviews

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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, 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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Title	:	Wheat that Springeth Green
Author	:	J.F. Powers
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First 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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"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

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

I liked this book even more the second time around. I look forward to reading it again.

Starts out strong and funny, but fizzles out quite a bit in the end. Not as good as Morte D'Urban.

Updike once said that a reviewer must never judge a book harshly for not doing what its author never set out to do. I had to keep this in the forefront of my mind as I read about the priestly formation and ministry of Father Joe.As a priest myself, I found it interesting that Powers entirely neglects what every priest actually does most of his week: administer the sacraments, counsel the doubtful, instruct the ignorant, and visit the sick. These things are more or less inescapable in the life of

"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

At times this book treats religion with as little reverence as a novel possibly can. The rest of the time it exposes the many doors that can lead a Catholic priest to mediocrity.Wheat That Springeth Green is a book that was featured in literary critic James Wood's first collected works of criticism. Wood began as a Catholic and then lost his way because of the Church's (and religions') philosophical inability with the question of evil.This novel will certainly appeal to anyone who's traversed