# Morte D'Urban

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- Book: [Morte D'Urban](https://www.bookquiver.com/jf-powers/morte-durban) ([Morte D'Urban.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jf-powers/morte-durban.md))
- Authors: [J.F. Powers](https://www.bookquiver.com/jf-powers), [Elizabeth Hardwick](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-hardwick)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-09-4032-223-3
- Pages: 360
- Published: 2000-05-31
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction. The hero of J. F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of...