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Last Catholic in America Mass Market Paperback – December 2, 1982. John Powers hits the nail on the head with his description of life as a Catholic, male, baby boomer as he plods his way through elementary school in St. Bastion's parish. by. John R. Powers (Author). Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Are you an author? Learn about Author Central. An example was his passage about testing the ability of one of their parish priests to understand English at confession. It seems that one priest always gave the same number of prayers at the end of confession.

John R. Powers (November 30, 1945 – January 17, 2013) was an American novelist and playwright. Powers wrote four books of fiction, The Last Catholic in America (Dutton 1973), Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? (Regnery 1975), The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice Cream God (Contemporary 1977), and The Junk Drawer, Corner Store, Front Porch Blues (Dutton 1992). He also wrote the self-help book Odditude (HCI 2007). These books relate his experience of growing up in 1950's Chicago

John R. Powers was born in 1945 on the South Side of Chicago. He earned a BA in sociology from Loyola University Chicago and an MA and a PhD in communications from Northwestern University. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Studs Terkel, a Chicago radio personality and writer known for his oral histories (Hard Times, The Good War). The novels followed in quick succession: The Last Catholic in America, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?, and The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice-Cream God. He has written one other novel, The Junk-Drawer Corner-Store Front-Porch Blues, as well as Odditude: Finding the Passion for Who You Are and What You Do. Powers takes you back to the first 8 years of life in a Catholic grammar school in the 1950's and early 1960's. Remember when all your teachers were nuns?

John R. Remember when all your teachers were nuns? Remember getting beaned on the head by a crucifix swung from the belted waist of a nun that walked up and down the classroom isle while you were doing your work?

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In this classic coming-of-age novel, John Powers draws readers into Eddie Ryan's world with deep affection and bittersweet humor. Books related to The Last Catholic In America. The Tender Bar. J. R. Moehringer.

Powers, alias Eddie Ryan, recalls his life and hard times as a fledgling Catholic in St. Bastion's Grammar School in a lower middle-class enclave of Chicago's South Side with the condescending disdain of one who has since attained secular enlightenment Powers, alias Eddie Ryan, recalls his life and hard times as a fledgling Catholic in St. Bastion's Grammar School in a lower middle-class enclave of Chicago's South Side with the condescending disdain of one who has since attained secular enlightenment.

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