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    Moviegoer

    Walker Percy

    The portrait of a New Orleans stockbroker, Binx Bolling, turning 30 and caught between ennui and a need for redemption through women, family or personal revelation, The Moviegoer won the…

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    Walker Percy: The Moviegoer & Other Novels 1961-1971 (LOA #380)

    Walker Percy

    A physician-turned-writer and self-described diagnostician of 'the malaise,' Percy plumbed the depths of modern American angst and alienation as few other writers have. Now he joins the Library of America…

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    A Confederacy of Dunces

    John Kennedy Toole

    The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city’s fleshpots in a noble…

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    Walker Percy: A Bibliography

    Stuart Wright

    A bibliography of philosopher and author (Love in the Ruins, The Message in the Bottle, etc.), Walker Percy, including information on separate publications, first appearace contributions to books, first appearance…

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    Walker Percy’s Voices

    Michael Kobre

    In this multifaceted work, Michael Kobre analyzes Walter Percy’s major fiction works - The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome…

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    Conversations with Walker Percy

    These collected interviews, like a visit with Percy at his home on the Bogue Falaya River, provide refreshing close-up encounters with one of America’s most celebrated writers. The interviews cover…

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    Walker Percy, Philosopher

    This collection offers a sustained examination of key aspects to his more technical philosophy (primarily semiotics and the philosophy of language) as well as some of his lesser known philosophical…

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    Walker Percy’s Search for Community

    In the first undertaking of its kind in Percy criticism, John F. Desmond traces - through Walker Percy’s six published novels - the writer’s central and enduring concerns with community…

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    Walker Percy: Books of Revelations

    Gary M Ciuba

    Ciuba examines how Percy’s apocalyptic vision inspires the structure, themes, and strategies of his fiction. This book explores the unity of the southern novelist’s fiction by focusing on its religious…

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    A Political Companion to Walker Percy

    An authoritative guide to the political thought of this celebrated yet complex American author, A Political Companion to Walker Percy includes seminal essays by Ralph C. Wood, Richard Reinsch II…

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    Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer

    Brian A. Smith

    Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer is the first sustained treatment of Percy as a political thinker. The book argues that Percy provides a distinctive approach to politics…

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    More Conversations with Walker Percy

    These collected interviews, like a visit with Percy at his home on the Bogue Falaya River, provide refreshing close-up encounters with one of America’s most celebrated writers. The interviews cover…

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    Walker Percy: A Southern Wayfarer

    William Rodney Allen

    This valuable and informative book is a study of Percy’s five novels in the context of his southern and American literary sources and his tragic personal history. This perceptive study…

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    Reading Walker Percy’s Novels

    Jessica Hooten Wilson

    Serves as a companion guide for readers who enjoy Walker Percy’s novels but may be less familiar with the works of Sartre, Camus, Kierkegaard, and Dante. In addition to clarifying…

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    A Political Companion to Walker Percy

    In 1962, Walker Percy (1916–1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene when he won the National Book Award for fiction with his first novel, The Moviegoer. This…

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    The Art of Walker Percy: Stratagems for Being

    Writing from a conviction of the centrality and worth of Walker Percy’s work, as well as from the idea that fresh criticism is of value not only to readers but…

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    The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy

    Shelby Foote,Walker Percy

    A fascinating window into a lifelong friendship and the writing life. -Kirkus Reviews

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    Lancelot

    Walker Percy

    Confined in the Institute for Aberrant Behavior, Lancelot Andrewes Lamar, scion of a distinguished Southern family and disenchanted liberal lawyer, tells a psychiatrist-priest of his efforts to prove his wife’s…

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    Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time near the End of the World

    Walker Percy

    In a defunct America, psychiatrist and inventor Dr. Tom More has created a miraculous instrument, a stethoscope of the human spirit, with which he plans to cure mankind’s spiritual flu…

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    Walker Percy, the Last Catholic Novelist

    Kieran Quinlan

    Walker Percy was a Catholic convert who defended his faith both in essays and in fiction. This book presents a study of the author and also examines American Catholicism since…

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    The Last Gentleman

    Walker Percy,Percy

    Will Barrett is a 25-year-old wanderer from the South living in New York City, detached from his roots and with no plans for the future–until the purchase of a telescope…

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    The Second Coming

    Walker Percy,Percy

    Will Barrett is a lonely widower suffering from a depression so severe that he decides he doesn’t want to continue living. But then he meets Allison, a mental hospital escapee…

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    The Thanatos Syndrome

    Walker Percy,Percy

    Returning to the small Louisiana parish where he had practiced psychiatry, Dr. Tom More quickly notices something strange occurring with the townsfolk–a loss of inhibitions. Behind this mystery is a…

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    Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and the Aesthetic of Revelation

    John D. Sykes

    By disclosing how Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy made aesthetic choices based on their Catholicism and their belief that fiction by its very nature is revelatory, the author demonstrates that…

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    The Myth of the Fall and Walker Percy’s Last Gentleman

    Bernadette Prochaska

    Williston Bibb Barrett experiences a sense that something is wrong in the world and in his life. The evidence in the novels of Walker Percy which deal with the life…

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    Walker Percy’s Sacramental Landscapes: The Search in the Desert

    Allen Pridgen

    This book maintains that a Catholic sacramental understanding of the self and the world is at the center of Percy’s imaginative and philosophical vision. In close textual analysis of The…

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    Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence

    Jessica Hooten Wilson

    Although Walker Percy named many influences on his work and critics have zeroed in on Kierkegaard in particular, no one has considered his intentional influence: the nineteenth-century Russian novelist Fyodor…

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    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walker Percy, and the Age of Suicide

    John F. Desmond

    Presents a study of the phenomenon of suicide in modern and post-modern society as represented in the major fictional works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Walker Percy. In his study, suicide…

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    The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other

    Walker Percy

    First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux –T.p. verso.

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    The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine

    Walker Percy brought to his novels the perspective of both a doctor and a patient. This collection of essays explores not only Percy’s connections to medicine but also the under-appreciated…

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    Eudora Welty and Walker Percy: The Concept of Home in Their Lives and Literature

    Marion Montgomery

    Eudora Welty and Walker Percy were friends but very different writers, even though they were interested in the relation of place to their fiction. This work explores in each the…

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    Walker Percy und der Kierkegaardsche Existentialismus: Existentialistische Elemente in The Moviegoer

    Jayashri Ghosh

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, Note: 1, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main (Institut fur England-und Amerikastudien), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar: Walker Percy: The Status of the…

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    Walker Percy Remembered: A Portrait in the Words of Those Who Knew Him

    David Horace Harwell

    Walker Percy, the reclusive southern author famous for his 1961 novel The Moviegoer , lived most of his adult life in Covington, Louisiana. This biography of Percy takes its shape…

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    Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer at Fifty: New Takes on an Iconic American Novel

    More than fifty years after its publication, Walker Percy’s National Book Award Winner, The Moviegoer, still confronts, comforts, and enlightens generations of readers. This collection of twelve essays emphasize the…

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    Biology and Integrated Management of Turfgrass Diseases

    Dr Gary W. Beehag, Dr Nathan R. Walker, Dr Percy T.W. Wong, Dr Jyri Kaapro

    This book provides understandable, science-based and extension knowledge of the identity, biology, ecology and integrated management of turfgrass diseases.

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    Signs of the Giver: The Collected Papers of the 2002 Southwestern College Walker Percy Seminar

    Southwestern College,Beth M Sheppard

    This volume contains collection of ten essays that focus on the fiction and non-fiction of southern novelist Walker Percy (1916-1990). Delivered during the 2002 Walker Percy Undergraduate Seminar held at…

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    St. Tammany Parish: L'Autre Cote du Lac

    Frederick Ellis

    A good local history is an excellent andagreeable thing. It pleases on two counts. It satisfies the curiosity of theinhabitants of a region, whether newcomers or old settlers, especially if…

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    The Moviegoer

    Walker Percy

    Originally published in 1961 by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. –Title page verso.

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    Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction

    Farrell O'Gorman

    Explains how the radical religiosity of both Flannery O'Connor’s and Walker Percy’s vision made them so valuable as southern fiction writers and social critics. Via their spiritual and philosophical concerns…

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    With Walker Percy at the Tupperware Party - in Company with Flannery O"Connor, T.S. Eliot, and Others

    Marion Montgomery

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    A Confederacy of Dunces: ‘Probably my favourite book of all time’ Billy Connolly

    John Kennedy Toole

    Ignatius J Reilly is fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by this? No. For…

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    Desire, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy

    Gary M. Ciuba

    In this groundbreaking study, Gary Ciuba examines how four of the American South’s most probing writers of twentieth-century fiction - Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Walker Percy…

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    Speech of Hon. Percy Walker, of Alabama, on the Presidential Election–The Attitude of Parties–The Duty of Southern Men. Delivered in the House ..

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    This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…

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    Some Technical Methods of Testing Miscellaneous Supplies, Including Paints and Paint Materials, Inks, Lubricating Oils, Soaps, Etc

    Percy Hargraves Walker

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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    The New Percy Grainger Companion

    A new collection with contributions from performing musicians and Grainger scholars and a detailed Catalogue of Works.

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    Paint for Priming Plaster Surfaces; NBS Miscellaneous Publication 137

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

    This work is in the public…

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    Restoring the Image: Religion and Society-Essays in Honour of David Martin

    David Martin is a world-renowned sociologist, and one of the most prominent sociologists of religion ever to have emerged from the British Isles. Noted for his work on secularization, Pentecostalism…

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    Symbol and Existence: A Study in Meaning: Explorations of Human Nature

    A book for Walker Percy scholars and fans who wish to decipher Percy’s authentic philosophical stance. Symbol and Existence demonstrates that Percy was quite methodical and logical in his thought…

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