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Walker Percy: Books of Revelations

Product Description: In Walker Percy: Books of Revelations, Gary M. 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 and artistic design—one of the first studies to approach Percy’s work from this perspective...read more

By Gary M. Ciuba

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Hardcover:

9780820313559 | Univ of Georgia Pr, December 1, 1991, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In Walker Percy: Books of Revelations, Gary M.

Paperback:

9780820337937 | Reprint edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, September 1, 2010), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: In Walker Percy: Books of Revelations, Gary M.

Still Following Percy

Product Description: A collection of interrelated essays on Walker Percy by one of Percy's most perceptive and sensitive critics

By Lewis A. Lawson

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Hardcover:

9780878058266 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, January 1, 1996, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: When critics first began to respond to the fiction of Walker Percy, they frequently refarded it as a fiction of ideas.

Paperback:

9781604730067 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, November 19, 2007, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A collection of interrelated essays on Walker Percy by one of Percy's most perceptive and sensitive critics

Walker Percy: a Southern Wayfarer

By William Rod Allen

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Hardcover:

9780124259607, titled "Drugs and Pregnancy: Maternal Drug Handling-Fetal Drug Exposure" | Academic Pr, April 1, 1985, cover price $56.00 | also contains Drugs and Pregnancy: Maternal Drug Handling-Fetal Drug Exposure

Paperback:

9781934110003 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, September 6, 2006, cover price $25.00

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

Product Description: Eudora Welty and Walker Percy were friends but very different writers, even though both were from the Deep South and intensely interested in the relation of place to their fiction. This work explores in each the concept of home and the importance of home to the homo viator ("man on his way"), and anti-idealism and anti-romanticism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Marion Montgomery

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9780786416639 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, December 1, 2003, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Eudora Welty and Walker Percy were friends but very different writers, even though both were from the Deep South and intensely interested in the relation of place to their fiction.

The Moviegoer

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 National Book Award in the USA on its first publication in 1961.

By Walker Percy

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Hardcover:

9780394437033 | Random House Inc, June 1, 1961, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Kate's desperate struggles to maintain her sanity force Binx to relinquish his dreamworld

Paperback:

9780413772657 | New edition (Methuen Pub Ltd, May 1, 2003), cover price $21.55 | About this edition: 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 National Book Award in the USA on its first publication in 1961.

9780375701962 | Vintage Books, May 1, 1998, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Kate's desperate struggle to maintain her sanity forces her cousin Binx to relinquish his dreamworld

9780449911709, titled "Moviegoer" | Ballantine Books, August 1, 1996, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: "A curious, tender book, provocatively and intelligently imagined.

9780804102902, titled "Moviegoer" | Ivy Books, February 1, 1990, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Kate's desperate struggle to maintain her sanity forces Binx to relinquish his dreamworld

9780380470761 | Reissue edition (Avon Books, March 1, 1982), cover price $3.95 | also contains Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky | About this edition: Winner of the 1962 National Book Award and one of Time magazineâs 100 Best English-Language Novels, Walker Percyâs debut The Moviegoer is an American masterpiece and a classic of Southern literature.

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786103911 | Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 1993, cover price $39.95

Prebinding:

9780613173872 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $20.45

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

Product Description: 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 Last Gentleman, The Second Coming, Love in the Ruins, and The Thanatos Syndrome, the author shows bow these works present Percy's sacramental worldview...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Allen Pridgen

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9781575910406 | Susquehanna Univ Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: 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.

Signposts in a Strange Land

A collection of essays explores such issues as the art of writing novels, the Civil War, semiotics, the physician as novelist, faith, abortion, the future of the Church, movie magazines, and education (view table of contents)

By Walker Percy

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9780374263911 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 1991, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays explores such issues as the art of writing novels, the Civil War, semiotics, the physician as novelist, faith, abortion, the future of the Church, movie magazines, and education

Paperback:

9780312254193 | 1 edition (Picador USA, April 1, 2000), cover price $19.00

9780374523459 | Reprint edition (Noonday Pr, August 1, 1992), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays explores such issues as the art of writing novels, the Civil War, semiotics, the physician as novelist, faith, abortion, the future of the Church, movie magazines, and education

Walker Percy's Voices

Product Description: Walker Percy's novels are fraught with characters struggling toward a destiny and purpose in life who must sort through conflicting inner voices and the voices of family, friends, therapists, and mentors until they finally find their own paths...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Michael Kobre

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Hardcover:

9780820321400 | Univ of Georgia Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $46.95 | About this edition: Walker Percy's novels are fraught with characters struggling toward a destiny and purpose in life who must sort through conflicting inner voices and the voices of family, friends, therapists, and mentors until they finally find their own paths.

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

Product Description: Walker Percy brought to his novels the perspective of both a doctor and a patient. Trained as a doctor at Columbia University, he contracted tuberculosis during his internship as a pathologist at Bellevue Hospital and spent the next three years recovering, primarily in TB sanitoriums...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Carl Elliott (editor) and John D. Lantos (editor)

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9780822323365 | Duke Univ Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: Walker Percy brought to his novels the perspective of both a doctor and a patient.

Paperback:

9780822323693 | Duke Univ Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Walker Percy brought to his novels the perspective of both a doctor and a patient.

Thanatos Syndrome

Dr. Tom More investigates a sudden outbreak of unusual behavior in Feliciana, Louisiana, and uncovers a criminal experiment to 'improve' behavior patterns through the secret use of durgs in the local water supply

By Walker Percy

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Hardcover:

9780374273545, titled "The Thanatos Syndrome" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1987, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Dr.

Paperback:

9780312243326, titled "The Thanatos Syndrome" | 1 edition (Picador USA, September 1, 1999), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Dr.

9780449911969, titled "The Thanatos Syndrome" | Ballantine Books, August 1, 1996, cover price $12.00

9780804102209 | Reprint edition (Ivy Books, December 1, 1994), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Dr.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786109005, titled "The Thanatos Syndrome" | Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 1995, cover price $76.95 | About this edition: Dr.

Lancelot

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 infidelity and his decision to begin life anew

By Walker Percy

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9780374183134 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 1977, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: 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 infidelity and his decision to begin life anew

Paperback:

9780312243074 | 1 edition (Picador USA, September 1, 1999), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: 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 infidelity and his decision to begin life anew

9780804103800 | Reissue edition (Ivy Books, April 1, 1991), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: 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 infidelity and his decision to begin life anew

9780380018611 | Avon Books, April 1, 1978, cover price $4.50

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786106691 | Blackstone Audio Inc, March 1, 1995, cover price $39.95

Second Coming

Widower Will Barrett of Linwood, North Carolina, and Allison Vaught--two alienated souls both questioning their faith in God--together heal one another and return to a Christian community that rejects their methods of healing

By Walker Percy

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Hardcover:

9780374256746 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 1983, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Widower Will Barrett of Linwood, North Carolina, finds his way out of death-in-life with the help of Allison, the girl in the greenhouse

Paperback:

9780312243241, titled "The Second Coming" | Picador USA, September 1, 1999, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Widower Will Barrett of Linwood, North Carolina, and Allison Vaught--two alienated souls both questioning their faith in God--together heal one another and return to a Christian community that rejects their methods of healing

9780804105422, titled "The Second Coming" | Reprint edition (Ivy Books, December 1, 1989), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Widower Will Barrett of Linwood, North Carolina, and Allison Vaught--two alienated souls both questioning their faith in God--together heal one another and return to a Christian community that rejects their methods of healing

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786104703 | Blackstone Audio Inc, October 1, 1994, cover price $62.95 | About this edition: [Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.

The Last Gentleman

Will Barrett, a Princeton graduate working as a janitor, meets Kitty when looking through his telescope at Central Park, and is drawn away from his remote lifestyle into the realities of her Southern family.

By Walker Percy

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9780679602729 | Reprint edition (Modern Library, January 1, 1998), cover price $18.50 | About this edition: Will Barrett, a Princeton graduate working as a janitor, meets Kitty when looking through his telescope at Central Park, and is drawn away from his remote lifestyle into the realities of her Southern family.

9780374183721, titled "Last Gentleman" | Reissue edition (Noonday Pr, August 1, 1990), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Will Barrett's unusual capacity for forgetting and imagining features of his own life involves him in the affairs of a Southern family

Paperback:

9780312243081 | 1 edition (Picador USA, July 1, 1999), cover price $18.00

9780374509163, titled "Last Gentleman" | Reissue edition (Noonday Pr, August 1, 1990), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Will Barrett's unusual capacity for forgetting and imagining features of his own life involves him in the affairs of a Southern family

9780804103794 | Reissue edition (Ivy Books, April 1, 1989), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Will Barrett's unusual capacity for forgetting and imagining features of his own life involves him in the affairs of a Southern family

9780380377961 | Avon Books, June 1, 1978, cover price $4.50 | also contains The Tiger Troubles

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786104208, titled "Last Gentleman" | Blackstone Audio Inc, June 1, 1994, cover price $76.95 | About this edition: An inquisitive young Southerner--with a special gift for cultivating life's possibilities--lives with the secret suspicion that the great world catastrophe that everyone fears will happen has already happened.

Percyscapes: The Fugue State in Twentieth-Century Southern Fiction

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By Robert W. Rudnicki

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Hardcover:

9780807123447 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $32.50

Walker Percy: A Life

Product Description: An authorized biography of the distinguished American author traces the complex events of his life, from his childhood and education to his marriage, conversion to Catholicism, and medical and literary career. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Patrick Samway

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9780374187354 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1997, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Traces the life of the novelist, physician, and Southern intellectual, and discusses his major works

Paperback:

9780829412680 | Loyola Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An authorized biography of the distinguished American author traces the complex events of his life, from his childhood and education to his marriage, conversion to Catholicism, and medical and literary career.

The Correspondence of Shelby Foote & Walker Percy

Collected letters offer a glimpse into a lifelong friendship--recording ambitions, artistic doubts, and personal problems

By Shelby Foote, Walker Percy and Jay Tolson

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Hardcover:

9780393040319 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1996, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Contains excerpts of the long-running correspondence between comic moralist Walker Percy and novelist and historian Shelby Foote, from the beginnings of their careers in the late 1940s to Percy's death in 1990.

Paperback:

9780393317688, titled "The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy" | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1998, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Collected letters offer a glimpse into a lifelong friendship--recording ambitions, artistic doubts, and personal problems

Walker Percy: The Last Catholic Novelist

Product Description: 1996 LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS SOFTCOVER (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Kieran Quinlan

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Hardcover:

9780807120446 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Book by Quinlan, Kieran

Paperback:

9780807122983 | Reprint edition (Louisiana State Univ Pr, April 1, 1998), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: 1996 LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS SOFTCOVER

Walker Percy: Prophetic, Existentialist, Catholic Storyteller

Product Description: One of the most important thinkers and novelists of the latter half of the twentieth century, Walker Percy in his six novels and numerous essays gave a Christian existentialist critique of contemporary society. Emphasizing the mystery of free persons, Percy's writings explore and dramatize the mystery of interpersonal relations and the mystery of human person's relationship with God...read more

By Robert E. Lauder

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9780820433332 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, March 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: One of the most important thinkers and novelists of the latter half of the twentieth century, Walker Percy in his six novels and numerous essays gave a Christian existentialist critique of contemporary society.

At the Crossroads: Ethical and Religious Themes in the Writings of Walker Percy

By John F. Desmond

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Hardcover:

9780878754809 | Whitston Pub Co Inc, February 1, 1997, cover price $35.00

The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family

Product Description: The novels of Walker Percy--The Moviegoer, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome to name a few--have left a permanent mark on twentieth-century Southern fiction; yet the history of the Percy family in America matches anything, perhaps, that he could have created...read more

By Bertram Wyatt-Brown

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Hardcover:

9780195056266 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 27, 1994, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Details the achievements of this literary family

Paperback:

9780195109825 | Reissue edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 21, 1996), cover price $49.99 | About this edition: The novels of Walker Percy--The Moviegoer, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome to name a few--have left a permanent mark on twentieth-century Southern fiction; yet the history of the Percy family in America matches anything, perhaps, that he could have created.

Autobiography in Walker Percy: Repetition, Recovery, and Redemption

By Edward J. Dupuy

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Hardcover:

9780807120125 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $30.00

Walker Percy's Feminine Characters

By Lewis A. Lawson (editor) and Elzbieta Oleksy (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780878754564 | Whitston Pub Co Inc, April 1, 1995, cover price $35.00

The Signs of Christianity in the Work of Walker Percy

Product Description: A compelling reconstruction of the underlying beliefs informing novelist Walker Percy's writings, Ann Futrell's study revitalizes the Protestant roots of Percy's devout Catholicism and creates a new paradigm for understanding the author and his works...read more

By Ann MacE Futrell

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Hardcover:

9781883255114 | Intl Scholars Pubns, February 1, 1995, cover price $68.00 | About this edition: A compelling reconstruction of the underlying beliefs informing novelist Walker Percy's writings, Ann Futrell's study revitalizes the Protestant roots of Percy's devout Catholicism and creates a new paradigm for understanding the author and his works.

Paperback:

9781883255046 | Intl Scholars Pubns, November 1, 1994, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: A compelling reconstruction of the underlying beliefs informing novelist Walker Percy's writings, Ann Futrell's study revitalizes the Protestant roots of Percy's devout Catholicism and creates a new paradigm for understanding the author and his works.

The Literary Percys: Family History, Gender, and the Southern Imagination

Product Description: The Percys, one the most distinguished families in the South, are notable not only for their prominence in the political and economic development of the Mississippi Delta but also for their literary creativity. In The Literary Percys, noted historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown examines the role of gender and family history in the writings of this exceptional lineage...read more

By Bertram Wyatt-Brown

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9780820316659 | Univ of Georgia Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The Percys, one the most distinguished families in the South, are notable not only for their prominence in the political and economic development of the Mississippi Delta but also for their literary creativity.

Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy

Product Description: The first major biography of Walker Percy traces his literary career back to his childhood days spent carousing with Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty on his uncle's plantation. 17,500 first printing.

By Jay Tolson

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Hardcover:

9780671657079, titled "A Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy" | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1992, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Traces Percy's literary career back to his childhood days spent carousing with Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty on his uncle's plantation

Paperback:

9781416552093 | Simon & Schuster, February 1, 2007, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: The first major biography of Walker Percy traces his literary career back to his childhood days spent carousing with Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty on his uncle's plantation.

9780807844472 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, February 1, 1994, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: When The Moviegoer, an extraordinary first novel by an unknown Louisiana author, won the National Book Award in 1962, it marked the arrival of an exceptional literary talent.

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