{"product_id":"the-stories-of-j-f-powers","title":"The Stories of J.F. Powers","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese beautifully written, deeply sympathetic, and very funny stories are an unforgettable record of the precarious balancing act that is American life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003eThe Lord's Day\u003cbr\u003eThe Trouble\u003cbr\u003eLions, Harts, Leaping Does\u003cbr\u003eJamesie\u003cbr\u003eHe Don't Plant Cotton\u003cbr\u003eThe Forks\u003cbr\u003eRenner\u003cbr\u003eThe Valiant Woman\u003cbr\u003eThe Eye\u003cbr\u003eThe Old Bird, A Love Story\u003cbr\u003ePrince of Darkness\u003cbr\u003eDawn\u003cbr\u003eDeath of a Favorite\u003cbr\u003eThe Poor Thing\u003cbr\u003eThe Devil Was the Joke\u003cbr\u003eA Losing Game\u003cbr\u003eDefection of a Favorite\u003cbr\u003eZeal\u003cbr\u003eBlue Island\u003cbr\u003eThe Presence of Grace\u003cbr\u003eLook How the Fish Live\u003cbr\u003eBill\u003cbr\u003eFolks\u003cbr\u003eKeystone\u003cbr\u003eOne of Them\u003cbr\u003eMoonshot\u003cbr\u003ePriestly Fellowship\u003cbr\u003eFarewell\u003cbr\u003ePharisees\u003cbr\u003eTinkers","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51230884266272,"sku":"9780940322226","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780940322226.jpg?v=1770881945","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/the-stories-of-j-f-powers","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}