Walker Percy: The Moviegoer & Other Novels 1961-1971 (LOA #380)
The Moviegoer / The Last Gentleman / Love in the Ruins
$71.32
- Hardcover
1000 pages
- Release Date
7 May 2024
Summary
In 1 volume, 3 classic early works by the Southern physician-turned-novelist who galvanized American literature with stories of spiritual searching amid modern angst.
Includes the landmark, National Book Award-winning The Moviegoer, in a fully annotated edition.
A physician-turned-writer and self-described diagnostician of “the malaise,” Percy plumbed the depths of modern American angst and alienation as few other writers have. Now he joins the Library of America seri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598537758 |
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| ISBN-10: | 159853775X |
| Author: | Walker Percy, Paul Elie |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1000 |
| Release Date: | 7 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 690g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 275mm x 232mm |
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About The Author
Walker Percy
Walker Percy was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1916 and trained as a physician at Columbia University. After an internship at Bellevue Hospital in New York, he contracted tuberculosis and abandoned medicine for a literary career. His first novel, The Moviegoer, was awarded the 1962 National Book Award for Fiction. His other books include the novels The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins, and The Thanatos Syndrome as well as the collection of essays The Message in the Bottle. Percy died in Covington, Louisiana, in 1990.
Paul Elie is a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. His first book, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, received the PEN/Martha Albrand Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle award finalist in 2003. He is also the author of Reinventing Bach, a finalist for National Book Critics Circle award in 2012. He lives in New York City.
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