Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters of J. F. Powers, 1942-1963

by J.F. Powers

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A wry, moving collection of letters from the late J. F. Powers, "a comic writer of genius" (Mary Gordon)

Best known for his 1963 National Book Award-winning novel, Morte D'Urban, and as a master of the short story, J. F. Powers drew praise from Evelyn Waugh, Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth, among others. Though Powers's fiction dwelt chiefly on the lives of Catholic priests, he long planned to write a novel...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0374268061

ISBN13:9780374268060

Release Date:August 2013

Publisher:Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Length:480 Pages

Weight:1.65 lbs.

Dimensions:1.5" x 6.2" x 9.4"

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