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Marion Montgomery · ISBN 9780786416639
Julkaistu 2003 Kieli englanti pokkari
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 fi...
Tuntematon tekijä · ISBN 9780807124550
Julkaistu 1999 Kieli englanti nidottu
The writings of Walker Percy, as Panthea Broughton notes in her introduction, are at once both accessible and inaccessible. Because they tempt readers to identify with character...
Tuntematon tekijä · ISBN 9780878056248
Julkaistu 1993 Kieli englanti nidottu
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.T...
Tuntematon tekijä · ISBN 9780813147420
Julkaistu 2014 Kieli englanti nidottu
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...
Shelby Foote; Walker Percy · ISBN 9780393317688
Julkaistu 1998 Kieli englanti nidottu
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 199...
John F. Desmond · ISBN 9780813231273
Julkaistu 2019 Kieli englanti sidottu
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walker Percy, and the Age of Suicide is a study of the phenomenon of suicide in modern and post-modern society as represented in the major fictional works of...
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 sets o...
Dr. Tom More has created a stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he embarks on an unforgettable odyssey to cure mankind's spiritual flu. This novel confronts both the value...
Will Barrett (also the hero of Percy's "The Last Gentleman") is a lonely widower suffering from a depression so severe that he decides he doesn't want to continue living. But th...
Walker Percy; Percy · ISBN 9780312243326
Julkaistu 1999 Kieli englanti nidottu
Returning home to the small Louisiana parish where he had praticed psychiatry, Dr. Tom More quickly notices something strange occuring with the townfolk, a loss of inhibitions....
Walker Percy · ISBN 9780312253998
Julkaistu 2000 Kieli englanti nidottu
Walker Percy's mordantly funny and wholly original contribution to the self-help book craze deals with the Western mind's tendency toward heavy abstraction. This favorite of Per...
In "Message" i"n the" "Bottle," Walker Percy offers insights on such varied yet interconnected subjects as symbolic reasoning, the origins of mankind, Helen Keller, Semioticism,...
Winner of the 1962 National Book Award and one of Time magazine's 100 Best English-Language Novels, Walker Percy's debut The Moviegoer is an American masterpiece and a classic o...
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 cl...
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 am...
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 fr...
Walker Percy · ISBN 9781441705471
Julkaistu 2016 Kieli englanti mp3 cd-levyllä
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 practice...
Walker Percy · ISBN 9781455158089
Julkaistu 2016 Kieli englanti mp3 cd-levyllä
The auto age is defunct. Buicks, Chryslers, and Pontiacs disfigure the landscape. Vines sprout in Manhattan. Wolves are seen in downtown Cleveland. And psychiatrist, mental hosp...
Walker Percy; Frederick Ellis · ISBN 9781565545632
Julkaistu 1981 Kieli englanti nidottu
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, e...
