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This study conveys a clear sense of how Percy's world view ties all his works, both novelistic and philosophical. Tharpe argues that critics unaware of the deeply Catholic underpinnings of that world view have misconstrued The Moviegoer as a study in fashionable existential irony. He also shows the strong links in artistic method among all of Percy's novels and provides discriminating analyses of each book. ISBN 0-8057-7389-4 : $14.95.

The 27 conversations recorded here span the years between 1961 and 1984,and range from one-page newspaper profiles to full-length interviews in journals. Presented unabridged in order of publication, they reveal Percy's philosophical, sociological, and religious underpinnings, and the influence of Kierkegaard, Sartre and Marcel, and present forthright statements about his hopes and abhorrences. Topics covered include: Percy's conversion to Catholicism;...

When he won the National Book Award in 1962 for his first novel, The Moviegoer, Walker Percy quickly established a wide and devoted following. Trained as a physician (who never practiced medicine after suffering from tuberculosis in the 1940s), Dr. Percy became a careful diagnostician of modern society in five subsequent novels and three non-fiction books. This biography, written with Percy's approval and assistance, allows his life to unfold as...

"Eudora Welty and Walker Percy were very different writers. But the two friends were both from the Deep South and intensely interested in the relation of place to their fiction. This work explores in each the concept of home, the locale where one discovers oneself intellectually and finds comfort." "The differences between Welty and Percy and their fiction are revealed in the habits of their lives. Welty spent her life in Jackson, Mississippi, and...

Offers a penetrating critical commentary on the works of twenty-five contemporary novelists including Barth, Mailer, Bellow, Heller, Updike and Malamud.