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Walker Percy (1916–1990)

Auteur van The Moviegoer

29+ Werken 12,284 Leden 164 Besprekingen Favoriet van 68 leden

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Walker Percy, May 28, 1916 - May 10, 1990 Walker Percy, born in Alabama, raised in Mississippi, and a former resident of Louisiana, was a member of a prominent Southern family who lost his parents at an early age and grew up as the foster son of his father's cousin. Percy graduated from the toon meer University of North Carolina and received his M.D. from Columbia, but was a nonpracticing physician who devoted much of his life to his writing. Percy's first novel, The Moviegoer (1961), won the 1962 National Book Award, but Charles Poore considers The Last Gentleman (1966) "an even better book." Love in the Ruins (1971) marks a sharp change in method and subject from the first two novels. A doomsday story set "at the end of the Auto Age," it exposes many foibles and abuses in contemporary life through sharp satire and extravagant fantasy. Whereas Love in the Ruins is funny, Percy's next novel, Lancelot (1977) is the rather bleak and pessimistic story of a deranged man who blows up his home when he finds proof of his wife's infidelities and then tells his story in an asylum for the mentally disturbed. Its apocalyptic vision is expressed in a more positive and affirmative way in The Second Coming (1980), which takes its title from the fact that it resurrects the character of Will Barret from The Last Gentleman and locates him, a quarter-century older, finding love and meaning in a cave. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

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Werken van Walker Percy

The Moviegoer (1961) 4,616 exemplaren
Love in the Ruins (1971) 1,284 exemplaren
Vorst der duisternis (1987) 1,081 exemplaren
The Second Coming (1980) 1,028 exemplaren
Lancelot (1977) 981 exemplaren
The Last Gentleman: A Novel (1966) 893 exemplaren
Signposts in a Strange Land (1991) 451 exemplaren
Conversations With Walker Percy (1985) 69 exemplaren

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A Portrait of Southern Writers: Photographs (2000) — Medewerker — 13 exemplaren
Walker Percy: A Comprehensive Descriptive Bibliography (1988) — Introductie — 12 exemplaren

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My favorite Walker Percy novel. Been through it three times. It's deep, moving, funny, and short. Everything I need. I mostly loved the characters. Wanted to give both of them a big hug.
 
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MickeyMole | 9 andere besprekingen | Oct 2, 2023 |
One of those rare books one can return to over and over. I highlighted a lot of paragraphs. Two great writers and thinkers share their friendship and knowledge. This is a beautiful book and must-read for lovers of literature.
 
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MickeyMole | 4 andere besprekingen | Oct 2, 2023 |
The correspondents were friends from their teenage years in Greenville, Mississippi and began corresponding in the 1940s: Percy, an award-winning novelist, and Foote a historian of the US Civil War.
 
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PendleHillLibrary | 4 andere besprekingen | Jun 19, 2023 |
Couldn't get into it
 
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Werken
29
Ook door
11
Leden
12,284
Populariteit
#1,905
Waardering
3.9
Besprekingen
164
ISBNs
187
Talen
12
Favoriet
68
Over
1
Verbindingen
227

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