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Lancelotby Walker PercyISBN 0312243073 (0-312-24307-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lancelot'Book summary:"A modern knight-errant on a quest after evil . . . Convincing and chilling." The New York Times Book Review
Lancelot Andrewes Lamar, a disenchanted liberal lawyer, finds himself confined in a "nuthouse" with memories that don't seem worth remembering until a visit from an old friend and classmate gives him the opportunity to recount his journey of dark violence. It began the day he accidentally discovered he was not the father of his youngest daughter. That discovery touched off his obsession to reverse the degeneration of modern America and begin a new age of chivalry and romance. With ever-increasing fury, Lancelot would become a shining knight -- not of romance, but of revenge . . . [via]-
The Last Gentlemanby Walker PercyISBN 0312243081 (0-312-24308-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Gentleman'Book summary:Will Barrett is a 25-year-old wanderer from the South living in New York City, detached from his roots and with no plans for the future, until the purchase of a telescope sets off a romance and changes his life forever.[via] -
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Bookby Walker PercyISBN 0312253990 (0-312-25399-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book'Book summary:The late Walker Percy's mordant contribution to the self-help book craze of the 1980s deals with the heavy abstraction of the Western mind and speculates about why writers may be the most abstracted and least grounded of all. (Before taking up novel writing, Percy was a medical doctor who became a patient in the very institution where he had worked.) The book disappeared for a time. Now it's back in print. Take the quizzes in it, then take a walk--you need to be back in the world before you write another word. [via]
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- Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book: ISBN 0374191654 (0-374-19165-4)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux - Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book: ISBN 0099358603 (0-09-935860-3)
Softcover, Arena Books - Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book: ISBN 0374523460 (0-374-52346-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book: ISBN 0374191662 (0-374-19166-2)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux - Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book: ISBN 0312253990 (0-312-25399-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
- Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book: ISBN 0374191654 (0-374-19165-4)
Love in the Ruinsby Walker PercyISBN 0312243111 (0-312-24311-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love in the Ruins'Book summary:[via]A great adventure . . . So outrageous and so real, one is left speechless. Chicago Sun TimesIn Walker Percys future America, the country is on the brink of disaster. With citizens violently polarized along racial, political, and social lines, and a fifteen-year war still raging abroad, America is crumbling quickly into ruin. The countrys one remaining hope is Dr. Thomas More, whose lapsometer is capable of diagnosing the spiritual afflictionsanxiety, depression, alienationdriving everyones destructive and disastrous behavior.But such a potent machine has its pitfalls. As Dr. More soon learns, in the wrong hands, the powerful lapsometer could lead to open warfare, pushing America into anarchy at full-speed.
The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Otherby Walker PercyISBN 0312254016 (0-312-25401-6)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other'More editions of The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other:
- The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other: ISBN 0374513384 (0-374-51338-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other: ISBN 0374208565 (0-374-20856-5)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux - The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other: ISBN 0312254016 (0-312-25401-6)
Softcover, Picador USA
- The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other: ISBN 0374513384 (0-374-51338-4)
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The Moviegoerby Walker PercyISBN 0375701966 (0-375-70196-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moviegoer'Book summary:This elegantly written account of a young man's search for signs of purpose in the universe is one of the great existential texts of the postwar era and is really funny besides. Binx Bolling, inveterate cinemaphile, contemplative rake and man of the periphery, tries hedonism and tries doing the right thing, but ultimately finds redemption (or at least the prospect of it) by taking a leap of faith and quite literally embracing what only seems irrational. [via]
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The Second Comingby Walker PercyISBN 0312243243 (0-312-24324-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Second Coming'Book summary:[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]
[Read by David Hilder]
Will Barrett of Linwood, North Carolina, is a depressed widower with a peculiar tendency to fall down in strange places. Allison, the girl in the greenhouse, has just escaped from a mental institution and is working hard to make a new life for herself. When their paths cross in a most unusual manner, a relationship begins that will help restore two struggling outcasts to new life.
What follows is by turns touching and zany, tragic and comic, as Will undertakes his own Pascalian wager in search of proof of the existence of God. Leaving his comfortable home atop a pleasant Carolina mountain and descending deep into the bowels of the long-unused Lost Cove cave, he is prepared to wait for a sign -- which may, of course, be death. What he is not prepared for is what actually happens. [via]
Signposts in a Strange Landby Walker PercyISBN 0312254199 (0-312-25419-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Signposts in a Strange Land'Book summary:At the time of his death in 1990, Walker Percy left a considerable legacy of uncollected non-fiction. Now assembled here, these essays on language, literature, philosophy, religion, psychiatry, morality, and life and letters in the South display the imaginative versatility of this legendary writer. [via]
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The Thanatos Syndromeby Walker PercyISBN 0312243324 (0-312-24332-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thanatos Syndrome'Book summary:The 1990s. Euthanasia and quarantines for AIDS have become the norm. But can even this world sanction a substance that "improves" people's behavior and so reduces crime, unemployment and teen pregnancy? A riveting bestseller by the author of The Moviegoer. [via]
What's That Pig Outdoors?: A Memoir of Deafnessby Henry Kisor, Walker PercyISBN 014014899X (0-14-014899-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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