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Wheat That Springeth Green
by J F Powers
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394496094
- ISBN 13
- 9780394496092
- Seller
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Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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Synopsis
J. F. Powers (1917-1999) was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, and studied at Northwestern University while holding a variety of jobs in Chicago and working on his writing. He published his first stories in The Catholic Worker and, as a pacifist, spent thirteen months in prison during World War II. Powers was the author of three collections of short stories and two novels— Morte D’Urban , which won the National Book Award, and Wheat That Springeth Green —all of which have been reissued by New York Review Books. He lived in Ireland and the United States and taught for many years at St John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota. Katherine A. Powers is a long-time champion of the novels of Raymond Kennedy. She is a freelance book critic and writes a literary column for the Barnes and Noble Review. She is the editor of a forthcoming volume, Suitable Accommodations: The Letters of J. F. Powers, 1942 - 1963 . She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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- Bookseller
- Dunaway Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 165905
- Title
- Wheat That Springeth Green
- Author
- J F Powers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394496094
- ISBN 13
- 9780394496092
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- August 1988
- Pages
- 335
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