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Originally published 1988 | 3.9/5 Goodreads | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominations National Book Award for Fiction Similar J F Powers books, Catholic Church books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wheat That Springeth Green is J. F. Powers's last novel. It chronicles the childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of Joe Hackett, a Midwestern Catholic who becomes a priest and dreams of being a saint. It was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1988, reprinted by Pocket Books in 1990 (ISBN 9780671682217), and republished by The New York Review of Books in 2000.
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