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

by J.F. Powers

Book Overview

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"