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A Too-Measured Prose
Goyen, William | May 12, 1956 issue

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This article briefly discusses the book "The Presence of Grace," by J.F. Powers. There is a curious voice in Mr. Power's stories. It speaks in a wry, dead-beat, direct, sometimes cagey, sometimes sinister tone; it is dull, plain, perfectly rendered, unrelievedly monotonous, a sort of special speech made out of speech--so that it seems, ironically, literary artifice. Scope seems missing in the story-telling art of Mr. Powers, measure is perplexed, a sense of realm is lacking and human extensions feel curtailed.

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PRESENCE of Grace, The (Book); POWERS, J. F.; STORYTELLING; ORAL interpretation; IRONY; ART
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