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Signposts in a Strange Land (1991)
by Walker Percy
At his death in 1990, Walker Percy left a considerable legacy of uncollected nonfiction. Assembled in Signposts in a Strange Land , these essays on language, literature, philosophy, religion, psychiatry, morality, and life and letters in the South display the imaginative versatility of an author... (learn more about this book)
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The Thanatos Syndrome (1987)
by Walker Percy
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. Behind this mystery is a dangerous plot drug the local water supply, and a discovery that takes More into the underside... (learn more about this book)
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City of the Dead (1985)
by Walker Percy
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Lost in the Cosmos (1983)
The Last Self-Help Book
by Walker Percy
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 Percy fans continues to charm and beguile readers of all tastes and backgrounds. Lost in the Cosmos invites us to think... (learn more about this book)
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The Second Coming (1981)
by Walker Percy
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 then he meets Allison, a mental hospital escapee making a new life for herself in a greenhouse. The Second Coming is by... (learn more about this book)
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Lancelot (1977)
by Walker Percy
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 sent Lancelot on modern quest to reverse the... (learn more about this book)
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The Message in the Bottle (1975)
How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other
by Walker Percy
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, and the incredible Delta Factor. Confronting difficult philosophical questions with a novelist's eye, Percy rewards us... (learn more about this book)
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Love in the Ruins (1971)
The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World
by Walker Percy
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 of life and its susceptibility to chance and ruin. (learn more about this book)
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The Last Gentleman (1966)
by Walker 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 sets off a romance and changes his life forever. (learn more about this book)
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