BOOKS by Walker Percy

Sometimes it pays off to expand your search to view all available copies of items matching your search terms.

Page 1 of 2

sort by

1	Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book more books like this by Walker Percy add to wishlist A satirical book illustrating Percy's unique humorous, ironical, and Christian attitudes. Contents include a mock self-help quiz, a script for "The Last Donahue Show", letters to "Dear Abby", essays, and other pieces of humor and criticism. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £5.74! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other more books like this by Walker Percy add to wishlist In "Message" i"n the" "Bottle," Walker Percy offers insights on such varied yet interconnected subjects as symbolic reasoning, the origins of mankind, Helen Keller, Semioticism, and the incredible Delta Factor. Confronting difficult philosophical questions with a novelist's eye, Percy rewards us again and again with his keen insights into the way ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £6.02! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Moviegoer more books like this by Walker Percy add to wishlist This acclaimed novel is narrated by Binx Bolling, a businessman from a genteel Louisiana family. Binx finds peace by going to the movies, but he is haunted by what he calls "malaise," a combination of depression and despair. His search for meaning and authenticity in his life forms the action of this novel. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £8.68! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Last Gentleman more books like this by Walker Percy add to wishlist Percy's second novel is the comic tale of Will Barrett, a Candide-like young innocent working at Macy's in New York City, who falls in love with Kitty Vaught. He accompanies her and her bizarre family to her Southern home, then travels west with Kitty's dying brother. Will's search is for meaning and ethical certainties in a world of chaos and ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £8.91! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Love in the Ruins more books like this by Walker Percy add to wishlist Subtitled "The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World," Percy's third novel (winner of the 1971 National Catholic Book Award) takes place in a world on the brink of destruction. The comic plot involves a mentally unstable doctor, Tom More, who has invented a cure for late 20th-century angst: More's Qualitative ... see all copies from £3.71! new only from £3.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Thanatos Syndrome more books like this by Walker Percy add to wishlist Dr. Thomas More returns to Louisiana and resumes his psychiatric practice after serving a sentence in jail for selling amphetamines to truck drivers. Oddly, all his patients exhibit strange symptoms that, with the help of his cousin Lucy Lipscome, he traces to doses of heavy sodium added to their water supply. Dr. More attempts to salvage his ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Lancelot more books like this by Walker Percy add to wishlist Confined in the Institute for Aberrant Behavior, Lancelot Andrewes Lamar, scion of a distinguished Southern family and disenchanted liberal lawyer, tells a psychiatrist-priest of his efforts to prove his wife's infidelity and his decision to begin life anew. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Second Coming more books like this by Walker Percy add to wishlist A sequel to Percy's earlier novel, "The Last Gentleman". see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.69! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	The Correspondence of Shelby Foote & Walker Percy more books like this by Shelby Foote, Walker Percy, Jay Tolson (Editor) add to wishlist The correspondence between Percy and Foote traces their respective careers, when they were grappling fiercely and openly with their ambitions, artistic doubts, and assorted personal problems. Jay Tolson has selected, edited, and annotated the letters of these two remarkable writers to shed light on their relationship as close friends and ... see all copies from £6.08! new only from £12.74! \| first editions
10	Lost in the Cosmos more books like this by Walker Percy add to wishlist A satirical book illustrating Percy's unique humorous, ironical, and Christian attitudes. Contents include a mock self-help quiz, a script for "The Last Donahue Show", letters to "Dear Abby", essays, and other pieces of humor and criticism. see all copies from £4.95! new only from £65.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	What's That Pig Outdo more books like this by Henry Kisor, Walker Percy (Foreword by) add to wishlist In this engaging memoir, Henry Kisor recounts the story of his life as a deafperson in a hearing culture. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £14.85! \| signed copies \| first editions
12	The Second Comingroom more books like this by Walker Percy, Wlaker Percy add to wishlist A sequel to Percy's earlier novel, "The Last Gentleman". see all copies from £3.72! signed copies \| first editions
13	Signposts in a Strange Land more books like this by Walker Percy, Patrick Samway (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! new only from £7.90! \| first editions
14 view cover	Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays more books like this by Walker Percy, Patrick Samway (Introduction by) add to wishlist At 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 ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £5.87! \| first editions
15 view cover	More Conversations with Walker Percy more books like this by Lewis A Lawson (Editor), Walker Percy, Victor A Kramer (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of interviews supplements Conversations with Walker Percy and occasions an additional two dozen pleasurable encounters with Percy. Primarily from the last ten years of Percy's life, they show how his presence was stimulating thought in much of humanistic America, in literature, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy, and in ... see all copies from £10.43! new only from £15.20! \| first editions
16 view cover	Conversations with Walker Percy more books like this by Walker Percy, Lewis A. Lawson (Editor), Victor A. Kramer (Photographer) add to wishlist Twenty-seven interviews reflecting the development of popular and scholarly interest in Walker Percy and his works see all copies from £8.66! new only from £15.77! \| first editions
17 view cover	Let the Bastards Go: From Cuba to Freedom on God's Mercy more books like this by Joe Morris Doss, Walker Percy (Foreword by) add to wishlist A moving memoir with the suspense and intrigue of a political thriller, "Let the Bastards Go" recounts how two priests, bolstered by their faith, defied both Cuban and American governments to deliver over 400 migrs to freedom. see all copies from £4.69! new only from £10.84! \| signed copies \| first editions
18	2nd Coming more books like this by Walker Percy add to wishlist see all copies from £4.95! first editions
19	Young Mrs. Cavendish and the Kaiser's Men more books like this by Walker Percy, K K Beck (Editor) add to wishlist The bestselling author of The Thanatos Syndrome and The Moviegoer brings a brilliant, comic, and sorrowful tale of nature writer Williston Bibb andg for birds. see all copies from £4.95! signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Restoring the Image more books like this by Andrew Walker (Editor), Dr. Martyn Percy (Editor) add to wishlist Specially commissioned essays evaluating the work of David Martin, one of the most prominent British sociologists of religion. David Martin is a world-renowned sociologist, and one of the most prominent sociologists of religion ever to have emerged from the British Isles. Noted for his work on secularization, Pentecostalism, the Church of England ... see all copies from £9.16! new only from £11.97! \| first editions
21	Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help more books like this by Walker Percy add to wishlist see all copies from £4.95! first editions
22	2nd Coming by Walker Percy add to wishlist see all copies from £4.95! first editions
23	Early Aviation at Farnborough: The History of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, more books like this by Percy Brooksbank Walker add to wishlist see all copies from £12.59! first editions
24	Love in the ruins : the adventures of a bad Catholic at a time near the end of the world more books like this by Walker Percy add to wishlist see all copies from £4.95! signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	A Thief of Peirce: The Letters of Kenneth Laine Ketner and Walker Percy more books like this by Kenneth L Letner, Walker Percy, Kenneth Laine Ketner add to wishlist This valuable and informative book is a study of Percy's five novels in the context of his southern and American literary sources and his tragic personal history. Though Percy has emphasized mainly his European existential influences, his highly allusive novels echo his tragic early years in the South, as well as his ambivalent relationship with ... see all copies from £50.75! new only from £50.75! \| first editions

Page 1 of 2: 1 2 Next>

Browse authors

Browse subjects

Our Money-Back Guarantee

We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.