The Field of Vision
Wright Morris
The Field of Vision by Wright Morris is an acclaimed literary masterpiece celebrating major critical honors and timeless storytelling.
Read Time: ~3.2 hr
The Presence of Grace
by J. F. Powers (1956)
About this book
Darkly comic, gently compassionate examinations of 1950s Middle America, Catholic style. As the village of Sherwood (where some stories take place in a vaguely pinpointed but accurately mapped terrain) becomes swallowed up into Minneapolis suburbia, as the Church begins to find its parishioners assimilating beyond the reach of vestibule religious tracts into the Welcome Wagon invitations of the middle class tract, Powers shifts accordingly... This follow-up [to "The Prince of Darkness and Other Stories"] presents nine investigations of Catholic life. Most are clerical, and those that feature the laity tend to wear the trappings of their faith less obviously, as fits the subject matter. But each one peers into the dilemmas of compromise, how one must balance what's rendered to God with what's given to Caesar. --John L. Murphy at Amazon.com.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraLate 20th Century
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters
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