Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/adventure/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0008 407360 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/adventure/engine/rss.php:0 Walker Percy - Free Library Land Online - Adventure https://adventure.library.land/ ru Walker Percy - Free Library Land Online - Adventure DataLife Engine Lancelot https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/45634-lancelot.html https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/45634-lancelot.html Lancelot
Lancelot Lamar is a disenchanted lawyer who finds himself confined in a mental asylum with memories that don't seem worth remembering. It all began the day he accidentally discovered he was not the father of his youngest daughter, a discovery which sent Lancelot on modern quest to reverse the degeneration of America. Percy's novel reveals a shining knight for the modern age--a knight not of romance, but of revenge.]]> Tue, 18 Oct 1977 19:04:16 +0300 The Last Gentleman: A Novel https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/45635-the_last_gentleman_a_novel.html https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/45635-the_last_gentleman_a_novel.html The Last Gentleman: A Novel
National Book Award Finalist: A lonely Southerner forges a surprising bond with a New York family in this “brilliant” novel by the author of The Moviegoer (Time).

Will Barrett has never felt at peace. After moving from his native South to New York City, Will’s most meaningful human connections come through the lens of a telescope in Central Park, from which he views the comings and goings of the eccentric Vaught family.

But Will’s days as a spectator end when he meets the Vaught patriarch and accepts a job in the Mississippi Delta as caretaker for the family’s ailing son, Jamie. Once there, he is confronted not only by his personal demons, but also his growing love for Jamie’s sister, Kitty, and a deepening relationship with the Vaught family that will teach him the true meaning of home.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Thanatos Syndrome https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/45633-the_thanatos_syndrome.html https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/45633-the_thanatos_syndrome.html The Thanatos Syndrome
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.]]> Sun, 18 Oct 1987 19:04:16 +0300 Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/45636-lost_in_the_cosmos_the_last_self-help_book.html https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/45636-lost_in_the_cosmos_the_last_self-help_book.html Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
Walker Percy's mordantly funny and wholly original contribution to the self-help book craze deals with the Western mind's tendency toward heavy abstraction. This favorite of Percy fans continues to charm and beguile readers of all tastes and backgrounds. Lost in the Cosmos invites us to think about how we communicate with our world.]]> Tue, 18 Oct 1983 19:04:16 +0300 Signposts in a Strange Land https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/509673-signposts_in_a_strange_land.html https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/509673-signposts_in_a_strange_land.html Signposts in a Strange Land
Writings on the South, Catholicism, and more from the National Book Award winner: "His nonfiction is always entertaining and enlightening" (Library Journal).
Published just after Walker Percy's death, Signposts in a Strange Land takes readers through the philosophical, religious, and literary ideas of one of the South's most profound and unique thinkers. Each essay is laced with wit and insight into the human condition. From race relations and the mysteries of existence, to Catholicism and the joys of drinking bourbon, this collection offers a window into the underpinnings of Percy's celebrated novels and brings to light the stirring thoughts and voice of a giant of twentieth century literature.]]> Tue, 19 Nov 1991 14:42:34 +0200 Love in the Ruins https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/45638-love_in_the_ruins.html https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/45638-love_in_the_ruins.html Love in the Ruins
Dr. Tom More has created a stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he embarks on an unforgettable odyssey to cure mankind's spiritual flu. This novel confronts both the value of life and its susceptibility to chance and ruin.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Moviegoer https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/45637-the_moviegoer.html https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/45637-the_moviegoer.html The Moviegoer
Winner of the 1961 National Book Award. The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback. The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he yearns for a spiritual redemption he cannot bring himself to believe in. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he occupies himself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the "treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a hare-brained quest that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, and sends him reeling through the chaos of New Orleans' French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Message in the Bottle https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/45639-the_message_in_the_bottle.html https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/45639-the_message_in_the_bottle.html The Message in the Bottle
In Message in 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.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Message in the Bottle and Lost in the Cosmos https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/475012-the_message_in_the_bottle_and_lost_in_the_cosmos.html https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/475012-the_message_in_the_bottle_and_lost_in_the_cosmos.html The Message in the Bottle and Lost in the Cosmos
]]> Wed, 15 Nov 2017 13:35:04 +0200 Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/198409-love_in_the_ruins_the_adventures_of_a_bad_catholic_at_a_time_near_the_end_of_the_world.html https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/198409-love_in_the_ruins_the_adventures_of_a_bad_catholic_at_a_time_near_the_end_of_the_world.html Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World
In Walker Percy’s 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 country’s one remaining hope is Dr. Thomas More, whose “lapsometer” is capable of diagnosing the spiritual afflictions—anxiety, depression, alienation—driving everyone’s 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.

Review

“Immensely readable, vividly entertaining.” —Los Angeles Times“Brilliant and hilarious . . . some of the most fascinating characters you’ll ever encounter.” —The Dallas Morning News“One of the major novels of our time.” —Milwaukee Journal

"A great adventure...So outrageous and so real, one is left speechless." --Chicago Sun-Times

"A comedy of love against a field of anarchy...Percy is easily one of the finest writers we have." --New York Times Book Review"Immensely readable, vividly entertaining." --Los Angeles Times"Brilliant and hilarious...some of the most fascinating characters you'll ever encounter." --Dallas Morning News"One of the major novels of our time." --Milwaukee Journal
]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 15:45:59 +0300 Last Gentleman and The Second Coming https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/198411-last_gentleman_and_the_second_coming.html https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/198411-last_gentleman_and_the_second_coming.html Last Gentleman and The Second Coming
A special two-in-one edition of National Book Award winner Walker Percy's classic novel The Last Gentleman and its sequel, The Second ComingIn The Last Gentleman, Will Barrett has never felt at peace. After moving from his native South to New York City, Will's most meaningful human connections come through the lens of a telescope in Central Park, from which he views the comings and goings of the eccentric Vaught family. But Will's days as a spectator end when he meets the Vaught patriarch and accepts a job in the Mississippi Delta as caretaker for the family's ailing son, Jamie. Once there, he is confronted not only by his personal demons, but also his growing love for Jamie's sister, Kitty, and a deepening relationship with the Vaught family that will teach him the true meaning of home.And in The Second Coming, now in his late forties, Will Barrett lives a life other men only dream of. Wealthy from a successful career on Wall Street and from the inheritance of his deceased...]]> Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:45:59 +0200 Lost in the Cosmos https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/198410-lost_in_the_cosmos.html https://adventure.library.land/walker-percy/198410-lost_in_the_cosmos.html Lost in the Cosmos
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