| 11,475 (32,076) | 595 | 1,770 | (3.89) | 67 | 0 | Walker Percy, May 28, 1916 - May 10, 1990 Walker Percy, born in Alabama, raised in Mississippi, and a former resident of Louisiana, was a member of a prominent Southern family who lost his parents at an early age and grew up as the foster son of his father's cousin. Percy graduated from the University of North Carolina and received his M.D. from Columbia, but was a nonpracticing physician who devoted much of his life to his writing. Percy's first novel, The Moviegoer (1961), won the 1962 National Book Award, but Charles Poore considers The Last Gentleman (1966) "an even better book." Love in the Ruins (1971) marks a sharp change in method and subject from the first two novels. A doomsday story set "at the end of the Auto Age," it exposes many foibles and abuses in contemporary life through sharp satire and extravagant fantasy. Whereas Love in the Ruins is funny, Percy's next novel, Lancelot (1977) is the rather bleak and pessimistic story of a deranged man who blows up his home when he finds proof of his wife's infidelities and then tells his story in an asylum for the mentally disturbed. Its apocalyptic vision is expressed in a more positive and affirmative way in The Second Coming (1980), which takes its title from the fact that it resurrects the character of Will Barret from The Last Gentleman and locates him, a quarter-century older, finding love and meaning in a cave. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Moviegoer … (més) |
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Walker Percy té 2 esdeveniments ja passats. (show)  Book Discussion Group: June The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie"The story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God. In the mid-twentieth century, four American Catholics came to believe that the best way to explore the questions of religious faith was to write about them-in works that readers of all kinds could admire. The Life You Save May Be Your Own is their story - a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over us.
Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; Flannery O'Connor a "Christ-haunted" literary prodigy in Georgia; Walker Percy a doctor in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy. A friend came up with a name for them - the School of the Holy Ghost - and for three decades they exchanged letters, ardently read one another's books, and grappled with what one of them called a "predicament shared in common."
A pilgrimage is a journey taken in light of a story; and in The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Paul Elie tells these writers' story as a pilgrimage from the God-obsessed literary past of Dante and Dostoevsky out into the thrilling chaos of postwar American life. It is a story of how the Catholic faith, in their vision of things, took on forms the faithful could not have anticipated. And it is a story about the ways we look to great books and writers to help us make sense of our experience, about the power of literature to change - to save - our lives." --- This title is the choice for Salzmann Library's June Book Discussion Group.
If you are interested in learning more about this book, reading works by the aforementioned authors, or reading more about them, we currently have a display featuring our book club pick.
Read On Pilgrimage by Dorothy Day, Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Flannery O'Connor's Everything that Rises Must Converge, or Thomas Merton's famous book The Seven Story Mountain. If you prefer biographies, we have Flannery by Brad Gooch and many others. Then come to the library to discuss and learn more about these four authors and their works.
We look forward to seeing you! (SalzmannStaff)… (més)
 The CLASSICS I FORGOT TO READ BOOK CLUB at Books Inc, in The Marina The CLASSICS I FORGOT TO READ BOOK CLUB will discuss The Moviegoer by Walker Percy. Location: Books Inc. Street: 2251 Chestnut St City: San Francisco, Province: California Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)
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| Agents | | Biografia breu | | Nota de desambiguació | | | Arregla aquest autorCombina/separa obresSepara l'autorWalker Percy actualment està considerat un «autor únic». Si una o més obres pertanyen a diferents autors homònims, procedeix a separar-los. InclouWalker Percy comprèn 4 noms. Pots examinar i separar noms. Combina amb…
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