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Walker Percy: The Moviegoer & Other Novels 1961-1971 (LOA #380)
Inbunden, 2024
520 kr
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In 1 volume, 3 classic early works by the Southern physician-turned-novelist who galvanized American literature with stories of spiritual searching amid modern angst Includes the landmark, National Book Award–winning The Moviegoer , in a fully annotation edition A physician-turned-writer and …
The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other
Av Walker Percy
Häftad, 2000
217 kr
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Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy
Av Shelby Foote, Walker Percy m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
334 kr
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In the late 1940s, Walker Percy and Shelby Foote, friends since their teenage years in Greenville, Mississippi, began a correspondence that would last until Percy's death in 1990. Walker Percy, the highly regarded author of The Moviegoer, wrote six novels, two volumes of philosophical writings, and …
Lancelot
A Novel
Av Walker Percy
E-bok, 2011
241 kr
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"A modern knight-errant on a quest after evil; grotesque, convincing and chilling." —The New York Times Book ReviewFed up with the excesses of the 1970s, Lancelot Andrews Lamar, a liberal lawyer and distinguished member of the New Orleans gentry, is determined to stop the modern world''s ethical …
Love in the Ruins
The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World
Av Walker Percy
E-bok, 2011
180 kr
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A “brilliant and hilarious” novel of the end times in America and one psychiatrist’s quest to save mankind, from a New York Times –bestselling author ( Dallas Morning News ). The United States seems to be on the brink of catastrophe. From the abandoned cars littering the highways (no one remembers …
Last Gentleman
A Novel
Av Walker Percy
E-bok, 2011
166 kr
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National Book Award Finalist: A lonely Southerner forges a surprising bond with a New York family in this "brilliant" novel by the author of The Moviegoer (Time). Will Barrett has never felt at peace. After moving from his native South to New York City, Will''s most meaningful human connections …
Second Coming
A Novel
Av Walker Percy
E-bok, 2011
238 kr
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A successful man''s midlife crisis may just provide a twisted path to happiness in this New York Times–bestselling novel by the author of The Last Gentleman. Now in his late forties, Will Barrett lives a life other men only dream of. Wealthy from a successful career on Wall Street and from the …
Thanatos Syndrome
A Novel
Av Walker Percy
E-bok, 2011
246 kr
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Percy''s stirring sequel to Love in the Ruins follows Tom More''s redemptive mission to cure the mysterious ailment afflicting the residents of his hometownDr. Tom More returns to his parish in Louisiana determined to live a simpler life. Fresh out of prison after getting caught selling uppers to …
Lost in the Cosmos
The Last Self-Help Book
Av Walker Percy
E-bok, 2011
246 kr
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"A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke . . . to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess." (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Filled with quizzes, essays, short stories, and diagrams, Lost in the Cosmos is National Book Award–winning author Walker …
Signposts in a Strange Land
Essays
Av Walker Percy
E-bok, 2011
246 kr
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Writings on the South, Catholicism, and more from the National Book Award winner: "His nonfiction is always entertaining and enlightening" (Library Journal). Published just after Walker Percy''s death, Signposts in a Strange Land takes readers through the philosophical, religious, and literary …
Message in the Bottle
How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other
Av Walker Percy
E-bok, 2011
246 kr
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From the National Book Award–winning author of The Moviegoer: "These essays . . . have a way of quickening the spirit and cleansing the sight" (The New Republic). Before winning the National Book Award for fiction in 1962, Walker Percy was an established scholar of science, philosophy, and …
Last Gentleman and The Second Coming
Av Walker Percy
E-bok, 2013
177 kr
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Now in one volume, two novels from the National Book Award winner that follow the life of a Southern man searching for love and connection.In The Last Gentleman, Will Barrett has never felt at peace. After moving from his native South to New York City, Will''s most meaningful human connections come …
Moviegoer
Av Walker Percy
Ljudbok, 2008
278 kr
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A winner of the National Book Award, The Moviegoer established Walker Percy as an insightful and grimly humorous storyteller. It is the tale of Binx Bolling, a small-time stockbroker who lives quietly in suburban New Orleans, pursuing an interest in the movies, affairs with his secretaries, and …
Second Coming
Av Walker Percy
Ljudbok, 2012
492 kr
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Will Barrett of Linwood, North Carolina, is a depressed widower with a peculiar tendency to fall down in strange places. Allison, the girl in the greenhouse, has just escaped from a mental institution and is working hard to make a new life for herself. When their paths cross in a most unusual …
Love in the Ruins and The Thanatos Syndrome
Av Walker Percy
E-bok, 2018
164 kr
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A pair of profound dystopian novels from the “brilliantly breathtaking” New York Times –bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of The Moviegoer ( The New York Times Book Review ). Winner of the National Book Award for The Moviegoer , the “dazzlingly gifted” Southern philosophical author …
Message in the Bottle and Lost in the Cosmos
Av Walker Percy
E-bok, 2018
177 kr
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Two fascinating philosophical inquiries from the "dazzlingly gifted" New York Times–bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of The Moviegoer (USA Today). Winner of the National Book Award for The Moviegoer, the Southern writer Walker Percy possessed "an intellectual range and rigor few …
Last Gentleman
Av Walker Percy
Ljudbok, 1994
377 kr
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Williston Bibb Barrett is a rather unusual and inquisitive young Southerner with a special gift for cultivating the possibilities of life. He suffers from occasional bouts of amnesia and disconcerting attacks of déjà vu. He clings to certain old-fashioned notions of behavior, and yet he finds …
Lancelot
Av Walker Percy
Ljudbok, 2012
321 kr
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Lancelot Lamar, a disenchanted liberal lawyer, finds himself confined in a mental asylum with memories that don’t seem worth remembering—until a visit from an old friend and classmate gives him the opportunity to recount his journey of dark violence. It began the day he accidentally discovered he …
Thanatos Syndrome
Av Walker Percy
Ljudbok, 2012
385 kr
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When Dr. Tom More (of Love in the Ruins) is released on parole from state prison, he returns to Feliciana, Louisiana, the parish where he was born and bred and where he practiced psychiatry before his arrest. Upon arriving, he notices something strange in almost everyone around him: unusual sexual …
