Walker Percy


The Moviegoer (Vintage International)
The Thanatos Syndrome
Love in the Ruins
Lancelot
The Last Gentleman
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
The Second Coming
Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays
The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other
Understanding Walker Percy (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family
The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy
Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy (Chapel Hill Books)
With Walker Percy at the Tupperware Party: in Company with Flannery O'Connor, T.S. Eliot, and Others
Eudora Welty and Walker Percy: The Concept of Home in Their Lives and Literature
Steven L. Peck
It was not Gilda and a racquet being used reflexively to some purpose. It was not Gilda using a racquet. It was one thing, maybe you could call it a Gilda-racquet-court-net-game-situation-two-other-players-wind-sunshine object. But there was only one thing there. To seperate us out would be to miss the reality.
Steven L. Peck, Gilda Trillim: Shepherdess of Rats

Walker Percy
What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it is easily overlooked. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. This morning, for example, I felt as if I had come to myself on a strange island. And what does such a cast away do? Why he pokes around the neighborhood and he doesn't miss a trick. To become aware of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto somethin ...more
Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

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