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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of North Carolina Pr
Publication date
February 1, 1994
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780807844472
ISBN-10
0807844470
Dimensions
1.75 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.85 lbs.
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Out of Print
Original list price
$18.95
Other format details
university press
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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. With his five successive novels and his wide-ranging philosophical and occasional essays, Walker Percy shored up his reputation as one of America's greatest writers - an ironic moralist and perhaps the shrewdest chronicler of life in the New South. Yet even by the time of his death in 1990, little was known about this intensely private man. Based on extensive interviews, written with access to Percy's letters and manuscripts, Jay Tolson has fashioned the first major biography of the writer, an authoritative portrait that brings Percy alive as it illuminates his distinguished body of work. We see Percy's life and his brilliant career against the background of the American South, whose colorful and tragic history is rooted deeply in the hearts and minds of its most talented sons and daughters. With a novelist's eye for character and the judgment of an informed critic, Tolson captures the lifelong drama of genius, always attentive to its artistic, psychological and spiritual dimensions. Percy was the scion of a proud, honorable and accomplished family, a clan haunted by a crippling streak of melancholy that issued repeatedly in suicides, including the self-inflicted deaths of Walker Percy's father and grandfather. Tolson depicts the struggle of Percy's life and the heroism with which he battled his family demons (and his own tubercular condition) and worked his way toward a writing career. Here is the young Percy in the days after his father's death, traveling with his brother and his mother (who would soon dieherself, in mysterious circumstances) from his childhood home of Birmingham, Alabama, to Athens, Georgia, and then on to Greenville, Mississippi, and the sprawling house of his Uncle Will. Adopted at 16 by this remarkable "bachelor-poet-lawyer-planter, " the most important single influe
Editions
Hardcover
from Simon & Schuster (October 1, 1992); titled "A Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy"
9780671657079 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.50 in. | 1.95 lbs | List price $27.50
About: 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
About: 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
from Simon & Schuster (February 1, 2007)
9781416552093 | details & prices | 544 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.50 in. | 1.80 lbs | List price $33.95
About: 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.
About: 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.
The price comparison is for this edition
from Univ of North Carolina Pr (February 1, 1994)
9780807844472 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.75 in. | 1.85 lbs | List price $18.95
About: 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.
About: 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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