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Title	:	Wheat that Springeth Green
Author	:	J.F. Powers
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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

Wheat that Springeth Green

J.F. Powers

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

Rating: 3.85 | 233 Users | 46 Reviews

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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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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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Ratings: 3.85 From 233 Users | 46 Reviews

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This book is a foray into the world of priests, curates, and Catholic fundraising. The conversations are droll and the personalities of the priests are as different as those you might find in a public restaurant. I felt somewhat that the book ended abruptly - I had realized suddenly that I was close to finishing it and that it must have some cataclysmic ending, but ... no, it just ended. So -- 3 stars.

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

I admire the intention of this book. As I conceive it: 'Where does the youthful intention of sanctity lead?'But I couldn't follow the evolution of the protagonist. We get some childhood scenes. How do these connect with the teenager and his dreams of sex? In the book these are painted as real, but please, that was an adolescent fantasy. And how do get from the sex scenes to the self-afflicted religion and the hair shirt. Does he feel a deep remorse and shame? We never get to know. The most

I don't recall where I heard about this book or author, but I'm glad I did. J.F. Powers is an entertaining storyteller that uses a unique writing style, particularly sentence structure, to convey the mood of any situation, and the result is usually laughter. Wheat That Springeth Green is the chronicle of a man named Joe Hackett from boyhood to priesthood. It involves pursuits of righteous piety via hairshirts all the way to sipping aperitifs in the rectory barcalounger watching baseball. Powers

J.F. Powers's sentences are so good as to immediately explain why he wrote so few of them in his life.

Not many books can straddle laugh out-loud funny and painfully sad at the same time. Wheat that Springeth Green follows the life of Fr. Joe Hackett from childhood, through seminary, early priesthood to late middle age and disillusionment. It is also eccentrically droll; I found myself rereading each section to pick up even most of the subtleties. It would take a couple more careful reads to get them all. The book is packed with clever detail, ironic and poignant. Sadly this is one of those books

"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