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D'Urban is a gem–a supremely funny tale about Father Urban, a Midwestern priest who believes in golf, baseball, scotch, and the Roman Catholic Church, perhaps in that order. Fr. Urban's struggles with the management of a parish are rendered with a comic's timing, and Powers's prose and dialogue are as sharp as anything in Flannery O'Connor. Is anyone as funny today? Maybe David Gates; maybe Tom Drury." –
Publishers Weekly "Superbly comic" – Nancy Pearl,
Book Lust "Each sentence tends to be an event; yet every event, like every firm but fluent sentence, is an open door into the next half–expected, half–shocking encounter....
Morte D'Urbanis [J.F. Powers's] supreme fiction." – F.W. Dupee
"...[Powers's] priests were creatures of a vivid, sympathetic, and unerring imagination...." – Andrew Greeley,
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