A Political Companion to Walker Percy

Book Overview

In 1962, Walker Percy (1916-1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene when he won the National Book Award for fiction with his first novel, The Moviegoer. A physician, philosopher, and devout Catholic, Percy dedicated his life to understanding the mixed and somewhat contradictory foundations of American life as a situation faced by the wandering and won-dering human soul. His controversial works combined existential questioning,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813147425
• ISBN13: 9780813147420
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"