Walker Percy: 13 books
by Walker Percy
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
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 writer Walker Percy possessed “an intellectual range and...
by Walker Percy
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
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 Moviegoer, the “dazzlingly gifted” Southern philosophical...
The Moviegoer
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Percy’s National Book Award–winning classic: A young man, torn between the forces of tradition and change, searches for meaning in post-war America
On the cusp of his thirtieth birthday, Binx Bolling is a lost soul. A stockbroker and member of an established New Orleans family, Binx’s...
Signposts in a Strange Land
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Writings on the South, Catholicism, and more from the National Book Award winner: “His nonfiction is always entertaining and enlightening” (Library Journal).
Published just after Walker Percy’s death, Signposts in a Strange Land takes readers through the philosophical, religious, and...
The Message in the Bottle
How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
From the National Book Award–winning author of The Moviegoer: “These essays . . . have a way of quickening the spirit and cleansing the sight” (The New Republic).
Before winning the National Book Award for fiction in 1962, Walker Percy was an established scholar of science, philosophy,...
Lost in the Cosmos
The Last Self-Help Book
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
“A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke . . . to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Filled with quizzes, essays, short stories, and diagrams, Lost in the Cosmos is National Book Award–winning author...
The Thanatos Syndrome
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Percy’s stirring sequel to Love in the Ruins follows Tom More’s redemptive mission to cure the mysterious ailment afflicting the residents of his hometown
Dr. Tom More returns to his parish in Louisiana determined to live a simpler life. Fresh out of prison after getting caught selling...
by Walker Percy
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Now in one volume, two novels from the National Book Award winner that follow the life of a Southern man searching for love and connection.
In The Last Gentleman, Will Barrett has never felt at peace. After moving from his native South to New York City, Will’s most meaningful human connections...
The Last Gentleman
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
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 York City, Will’s most meaningful human connections...
Love in the Ruins
The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
A “brilliant and hilarious” novel of the end times in America and one psychiatrist’s quest to save mankind, from a New York Times–bestselling author (Dallas Morning News).
The United States seems to be on the brink of catastrophe. From the abandoned cars littering the highways (no one remembers...
The Second Coming
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
A successful man’s midlife crisis may just provide a twisted path to happiness in this New York Times–bestselling novel by the author of The Last Gentleman.
Now in his late forties, Will Barrett lives a life other men only dream of. Wealthy from a successful career on Wall Street...
Lancelot
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
“A modern knight-errant on a quest after evil; grotesque, convincing and chilling.” —The New York Times Book Review
Fed up with the excesses of the 1970s, Lancelot Andrews Lamar, a liberal lawyer and distinguished member of the New Orleans gentry, is determined to stop the modern world’s...
Higher Education as a Bridge to the Future
Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents, with Reflections on the Future of Higher Education by Dr. J. Michael Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This volume assembles the papers, presentations, and speeches from the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) held in Oxfordshire in 2015. This book is a companion volume to the proceedings of the 1965 inaugural meeting of IAUP, also published by...