Author
Walker Percy
7 award wins, 1 nomination across 4 books.
Love in the Ruins
403 pages
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The Last Gentleman
409 pages
Williston Bibb Barrett, the last gentleman of the story, is a displaced Southerner who has dropped out of Princeton owing to a nervous condition that his psychoanalyst associates with an inability to fit into groups. While living in New York City, our wayfarer-hero falls in love with a young woman he spies through a telescope...and sets out on a cross-country odyssey in search of home, identity, and the meaning of contemporary life.
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The Moviegoer
241 pages
Kate's desperate struggles to maintain her sanity force Binx to relinquish his dreamworld.
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The Second Coming
359 pages
Widower Will Barrett of Linwood, North Carolina, and Allison Vaught--two alienated souls both questioning their faith in God--together heal one another and return to a Christian community that rejects their methods of healing.
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