The Stories of J.F. Powers

Современная русская и зарубежная проза

Автор: Powers J. F.

Серия: New York Review Books Classics

Язык: английский

Год: 2000

Издатель: NYRB Classics

Добавил: Admin 21 Фев 15

Проверил: Admin 21 Фев 15

Формат: FB2 (411 Kb) RTF (419 Kb) TXT (396 Kb) HTML (410 Kb) EPUB (564 Kb) MOBI (1998 Kb)

Currently 0/5

Рейтинг: 0/5 (Всего голосов: 0)

Аннотация

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.