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Morte D'Urban by J.F. Powers6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Men with vocations want an order with a history, like the Jesuits or Benedictines. They went through a few years of success and growth, but things have been on a down turn. The Clementines are a mediocre order at best, and they know it. The novel focuses around a factious religious order, the Clementines and a man in that order that is great at interacting with the world, but maybe not so religious. Powers has created a novel that is considered a classic in American literature, yet in many ways it is atypical. He believes he should be leading the Clementines, and when at the General meeting, the current leader of the order retains his position, Urban is vanquished to the order's outpost in rural Minnesota. It is the story of Father Urban, a man in the church but also a man of the world a man just as comfortable in a five star hotel as a camp site. This book won the 1963 National book award for fiction. Powers, Image Books, New York Review Of Books, New York, NY. ![]()
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