Walker Percy

• May-1961
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Winner of the 1961 National Book Award

The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback.

The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young N...

• Jan-1966
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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 Y...

• May-1971
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Dr. Tom More has created a miraculous instrument -- the Ontological Lapsometer, a kind of stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he plans to cure mankind's spiritual flu. Though scorned by the experts, Tom embarks on an outrageous odyssey to prove...

• Feb-1977
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Lancelot Lamar is a disenchanted lawyer who finds himself confined in a mental asylum with memories that don't seem worth remembering. It all began the day he accidentally discovered he was not the father of his youngest daughter, a discovery which s...

• Jul-1980
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Man so depressed over the death of his wife that he doesn't wish to go on living -- but he meets a woman who happens to be an escapee from a mental hospital. Materials that always make for a fantastic southern 'author' experience....

• Jun-1984
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Clean and unmarked text. Pages are age toned at edges. Spine is lightly creased. Cover is uncreased. Minor shelf wear. Price sticker on back cover. Tight, solid, clean. NF-. We post pictures 24 hours after listing. So if you do not see a picture that...

• Jun-1984
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In Message in the Bottle, Walker Percy offers insights on such varied yet interconnected subjects as symbolic reasoning, the origins of mankind, Helen Keller, Semioticism, and the incredible Delta Factor. Confronting difficult philosophical questions...

• Apr-1987
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When Dr. Tom More is released on parole from state prison, he returns to Feliciana, Louisiana, the parish where he was born and bred, where he practiced psychiatry before his arrest. He immediately notices something strange in almost everyone around ...

• Dec-1988
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• Aug-1991
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A captivating collection of writings on Southern life by one of the masters of American literature Published just after Walker Percy's death, Signposts in a Strange Land takes readers through the philosophical, religious, and literary ideas of ...

• Dec-2013
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A special two-in-one edition of National Book Award winner Walker Percy’s classic novel The Last Gentleman and its sequel, The Second Coming In The Last Gentleman, Will Barrett has never felt at peace. After moving from his native South to New Y...

• May-2018
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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 Movi...

• May-2018
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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 writ...

• May-2024
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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 angstIncludes the landmark, National Book Award–winning The Moviegoer, in a fully an...