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  • THE LAST GENTLEMAN AND THE SECOND COMING
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    THE LAST GENTLEMAN AND THE SECOND COMING
    WALKER PERCY
    Now in one volume, two novels from the National Book Award winner that follow the life of a Southern man searching for love and connection. In  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 coming...

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  • THE LAST GENTLEMAN
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    THE LAST GENTLEMAN
    WALKER PERCY
    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 comi...

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  • LOVE IN THE RUINS
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    LOVE IN THE RUINS
    WALKER PERCY
    A "brilliant and hilarious" novel of the end times in America and one psychiatrist's quest to save mankind, from a New York Times–bestselling author ( Dallas Morning News).   The United States seems to be on the brink of catastrophe. From the abandoned cars littering the highways (no one remembers how to fix them) to the endless hours spent on the golf course (now open twenty-f...

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  • THE MESSAGE IN THE BOTTLE
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    THE MESSAGE IN THE BOTTLE
    WALKER PERCY
    From the National Book Award–winning author of The Moviegoer: "These essays . . . have a way of quickening the spirit and cleansing the sight" ( The New Republic).   Before winning the National Book Award for fiction in 1962, Walker Percy was an established scholar of science, philosophy, and language. Presented here are his strongest essays in those subjects, offering what he ...

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  • SIGNPOSTS IN A STRANGE LAND
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    SIGNPOSTS IN A STRANGE LAND
    WALKER PERCY
    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 ...

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  • THE THANATOS SYNDROME
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    THE THANATOS SYNDROME
    WALKER PERCY
    Percy's stirring sequel to Love in the Ruins follows Tom More's redemptive mission to cure the mysterious ailment afflicting the residents of his hometown Dr. Tom More returns to his parish in Louisiana determined to live a simpler life. Fresh out of prison after getting caught selling uppers to truck drivers, he wants nothing more than to live "a small life." But when everyone...

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  • LANCELOT
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    LANCELOT
    WALKER PERCY
    "A modern knight-errant on a quest after evil; grotesque, convincing and chilling." — The New York Times Book Review Fed up with the excesses of the 1970s, Lancelot Andrews Lamar, a liberal lawyer and distinguished member of the New Orleans gentry, is determined to stop the modern world's ethical collapse. His quest begins with his wife—an actress who he suspects has been cheat...

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  • LOST IN THE COSMOS
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    LOST IN THE COSMOS
    WALKER PERCY
    "A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke . . . to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess." ( Los Angeles Times Book Review).   Filled with quizzes, essays, short stories, and diagrams, Lost in the Cosmos is National Book Award–winning author Walker Percy's humorous take on a familiar genre—as well as an invitation to serious c...

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  • THE MOVIEGOER
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    THE MOVIEGOER
    WALKER PERCY
    In this National Book Award–winning novel from a “brilliantly breathtaking writer,” a young Southerner searches for meaning in the midst of Mardi Gras (The New York Times Book Review). On the cusp of his thirtieth birthday, Binx Bolling is a lost soul. A stockbroker and member of an established New Orleans family, Binx’s one escape is the movie theater that transports him from ...

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  • LOVE IN THE RUINS AND THE THANATOS SYNDROME
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    LOVE IN THE RUINS AND THE THANATOS SYNDROME
    WALKER PERCY
    A pair of profound dystopian novels from the "brilliantly breathtaking" New York Times–bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of The Moviegoer ( The New York Times Book Review).   Winner of the National Book Award for The Moviegoer, the "dazzlingly gifted" Southern philosophical author Walker Percy wrote two vividly imagined satirical novels of America's future feat...

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  • THE MESSAGE IN THE BOTTLE AND LOST IN THE COSMOS
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    THE MESSAGE IN THE BOTTLE AND LOST IN THE COSMOS
    WALKER PERCY
    Two fascinating philosophical inquiries from the "dazzlingly gifted" New York Times–bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of The Moviegoer ( USA Today).   Winner of the National Book Award for The Moviegoer, the Southern writer Walker Percy possessed "an intellectual range and rigor few American novelists can match" ( The New York Times Book Review). In these two p...

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  • THE SECOND COMING
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    THE SECOND COMING
    WALKER PERCY
    A successful man's midlife crisis may just provide a twisted path to happiness in this New York Times–bestselling novel by the author of The Last Gentleman.   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 wife's estate, Will is universally admired at the club w...

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