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Wheat That Springeth Green is J. F. Powers's last novel. It chronicles the childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of Joe Hackett, a Midwestern Catholic who becomes a priest and dreams of being a saint. Powers worked on the book for 25 years, and was 71 years old when Alfred A. Knopf published it in 1988. [1] A New York Times review praised Powers's "eye for suburban decor and his ear for clerical idiom, American-style". [2] The book was a finalist for the 1988 National Book Award for Fiction. Wheat That Springeth Green was reprinted by Pocket Books in 1990 ( ISBN 9780671682217) and republished by The New York Review of Books in 2000.
