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Signposts in a Strange Land : Essays by Walker Percy (2000, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherPicador

ISBN-100312254199

ISBN-139780312254193

eBay Product ID (ePID)1621205

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Book TitleSignposts in a Strange Land : Essays

Number of Pages448 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2000

TopicUnited States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), American / General, Essays

IllustratorYes

FeaturesRevised

GenreLiterary Collections, History

AuthorWalker Percy

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight20 oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN99-089573

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsThese moving pieces of nonfiction, some quite brief and terse, others more relaxed and spacious, offer 'signposts' that will help us understand not only the 'strange land' that is late-20th-century America, but the extraordinary mind of an especially alert and knowing observer., "These moving pieces of nonfiction, some quite brief and terse, others more relaxed and spacious, offer 'signposts' that will help us understand not only the 'strange land' that is late-20th-century America, but the extraordinary mind of an especially alert and knowing observer." -- Robert Coles, Boston Sunday Globe "Tart, lively, and likeable. You come away admiring not only the writer's sense and sensibility, his sophistication and intelligence, but, more important, his wisdom and courage." -- George Core, The Washington Post Book World "Percy is always intelligent, always civilized, never blind to his opponents' point of view." -- Evelyn Toynton, The New York Times Book Review "Remarkably revealing . . . Signposts shows Percy in all of his moral and intellectual grandeur . . . What shines through, however, is Percy's fundamental decency, his compassiona for the human predicament, and his abundant love for humanity." -- Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times, Remarkably revealing . . . Signposts shows Percy in all of his moral and intellectual grandeur . . . What shines through, however, is Percy's fundamental decency, his compassiona for the human predicament, and his abundant love for humanity., Tart, lively, and likeable. You come away admiring not only the writer's sense and sensibility, his sophistication and intelligence, but, more important, his wisdom and courage., "These moving pieces of nonfiction, some quite brief and terse, others more relaxed and spacious, offer 'signposts' that will help us understand not only the 'strange land' that is late-20th-century America, but the extraordinary mind of an especially alert and knowing observer."--Robert Coles, Boston Sunday Globe "Tart, lively, and likeable. You come away admiring not only the writer's sense and sensibility, his sophistication and intelligence, but, more important, his wisdom and courage."--George Core, The Washington Post Book World "Percy is always intelligent, always civilized, never blind to his opponents' point of view."--Evelyn Toynton, The New York Times Book Review "Remarkably revealing . . . Signposts shows Percy in all of his moral and intellectual grandeur . . . What shines through, however, is Percy's fundamental decency, his compassiona for the human predicament, and his abundant love for humanity."--Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times, "These moving pieces of nonfiction, some quite brief and terse, others more relaxed and spacious, offer 'signposts' that will help us understand not only the 'strange land' that is late-20th-century America, but the extraordinary mind of an especially alert and knowing observer."- -Robert Coles, Boston Sunday Globe "Tart, lively, and likeable. You come away admiring not only the writer's sense and sensibility, his sophistication and intelligence, but, more important, his wisdom and courage." -- George Core, The Washington Post Book World "Percy is always intelligent, always civilized, never blind to his opponents' point of view."-- Evelyn Toynton, The New York Times Book Review "Remarkably revealing . . . Signposts shows Percy in all of his moral and intellectual grandeur . . . What shines through, however, is Percy's fundamental decency, his compassiona for the human predicament, and his abundant love for humanity."- -Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times

Dewey Decimal813/.54 B

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

Table Of ContentWhy I Live Where I Live New Orleans Mon Amour The City of the Dead Going Back to Georgia Mississippi: The Fallen Paradise Uncle Will Uncle Will's House A Better Louisiana The American War Red, White, and Blue-Gray Stoicism in the South A Southern View The Southern Moderate Bourbon Is a Theory of Man Possible? Naming and Being The State of the Novel: Dying Art or New Science? Novel-Writing in an Apocalyptic Time How to Be an American Novelist in Spite of Being Southern and Catholic From Facts to Fiction Physician as Novelist Herman Melville Diagnosing the Modern Malaise Eudora Welty in Jackson Foreword to A Confederacy of Dunces Rediscovering A Canticle for Leibowitz The Movie Magazine: A Low "Slick" Accepting the National Book Award for The Moviegoer Concerning Love in the Ruins The Coming Crisis in Psychiatry The Culture Critics The Fateful Rift: The San Andreas Fault in the Modern Mind Culture, the Church, and Evangelization Why Are You a Catholic? A "Cranky Novelist" Reflects on the Church The Failure and the Hope A View of Abortion, with Something to Offend Everybody Foreword to The New Catholics If I Had Five Minutes with the Pope An Unpublished Letter to the Times Another Message in the Bottle The Holiness of the Ordinary An Interview with Zoltan Abadi-Nagi Questions They Never Asked Me Bibliography Notes

SynopsisAt his death in 1990, Walker Percy left a considerable legacy of uncollected nonfiction. Assembled in Signposts in a Strange Land , these essays on language, literature, philosophy, religion, psychiatry, morality, and life and letters in the South display the imaginative versatility of an author considered by many to be one the greatest modern American writers.

LC Classification NumberPS3566.E6912S57 2000