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Morte d'UrbanMorte d'Urban

Morte d'Urban

J. F. Powers

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"Father Urban, a man of the cloth, is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambiguity, Urban enjoys a national reputation as a speaker on the religious circuit and has big plans for the future. But then the provincial head of his dowdy religious order banishes him to a retreat house in the Minnesota hinterlands. Father Urban soon bounces back, carrying God's word with undaunted enthusiasm through the golf courses, fishing lodges, and backyard barbecues of his new turf. Yet even as he triumphs his tribulations mount, and in the end his greatest success proves a setback from which he cannot recover."--BOOK JACKET.

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OL Work ID
OL488130W

Subjects

CatholicsClergyFictionNational Book Award Winneraward:national_book_award=1963award:national_book_award=fictionCatholic ChurchCatholic church, clergy, fictionFiction, religiousFiction, general

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