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The moviegoer & other novels 1961-1971 / Walker Percy ; Paul Elie, editor.
Van Pelt Library PS3566.E6912 A6 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Percy, Walker, 1916-1990, author.
- Series:
- Library of America ; 380.
- The Library of America ; 380
- Standardized Title:
- Novels. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century.
- American fiction.
- Men--Fiction.
- Men.
- Spirituality--Fiction.
- Spirituality.
- Alienation (Social psychology)--Fiction.
- Alienation (Social psychology).
- United States--Social conditions--Fiction.
- United States.
- Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Humorous fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Satirical literature
- Science fiction
- Fiction
- Literature
- Novels
- Psychological fiction.
- Literature.
- Science fiction.
- Satirical fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 974 pages ; 21 cm.
- Other Title:
- Moviegoer and other novels 1961-1971
- Walker Percy : the moviegoer & other novels 1961-1971
- Percy : the moviegoer & other novels 1961-1971
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2024]
- Summary:
- "Here in one volume are three novels of spiritual yearning by a writer often compared to his fellow southerner Flannery O'Connor, and to such precursors as Dante and Dostoevsky. In the National Book Award-winning classic The Moviegoer, a New Orleans stockbroker and compulsive cineaste reawakens to the wonder of the world. The Last Gentleman concerns a displaced southerner who takes to the road in a Trav-L-Aire cmper nicknamed 'Ulysses,' accompanied by the terminally ill boy in his charge. And in Love in the Ruins, a satirical work of speculative fiction set in the apocalyptic near future of 1983, Percy imagines a fatally divided America whose salvation hinges on a device that might also spell its doom. The volume includes three related writings by Percy that comment incisively on his work, as well as a newly researched chronology of his life and career."--Dust jacket.
- Contents:
- The moviegoer
- The last gentleman
- Love in the ruins
- Related writings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 930-974).
- Contains:
- Container of: Percy, Walker, 1916-1990. Moviegoer.
- Container of: Percy, Walker, 1916-1990. Last gentleman.
- Container of: Percy, Walker, 1916-1990. Love in the ruins.
- ISBN:
- 9781598537758
- 159853775X
- OCLC:
- 1394000868
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