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Wheat That Springeth Green

J. F. Powers

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Wheat That Springeth Green 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.

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Publisher
New York Review of Books
Year
2012
ISBN-13
9781590176580
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Priesthood and faithSatire of American consumerismVietnam War era society

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