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The message in the bottle : how queer man is, how queer language is, and what one has to do with the other / Walker Percy.
LIBRA PS3566.E6912 M4 2000 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Percy, Walker, 1916-1990.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and culture.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- x, 335 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Picador USA edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Picador USA : Distributed by St. Martin's Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- 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 again and again with his keen insights into the way that language possesses all of us.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-335).
- ISBN:
- 0312254016
- 9780312254018
- OCLC:
- 43060602
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- Publisher description
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