About this title: 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 ...
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Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Noonday
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780374513382ISBN:0374513384
Description: pp. 335. Type of binding: Paperback Details: Very good. * This item is at our second store. Please anticipate an additional week in delivery time. read more
Description: Good in Unknown jacket. Very Good Very good. Unmarked. From library but with minimal library markings and no card pocket. 9th printing. ---InstaShip Books Normally Ships within 24 Hours, often, Same Day. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 2000-04-01
ISBN-13:9780312254018ISBN:0312254016
Description: Fair. Cover shows little signs of shelf ware. back cover has light water damage that does not affect reading. all pages unmarked. will ship best available copy. great deal! ! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780374513382ISBN:0374513384
Description: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 0374513384. Wraps show standard shelfwear. Binding is still very good, some light readers creasing at spine. Previous owners name on first page. Light toning to book, very faint. Pages are clean. Essays. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.; 1 x 8 x 5.3 Inches; 345 pages. read more
"One of my very favorite collections of essays. "The Delta Factor" can bring me to tears most any time. It's the most poignant rendering of the human condition I have ever read."
"language theory and kind of ...antisemiotics? A bit over my head and out of date, and would have been more influential if he'd been listened to then. Now, kind of a curiosity for crystallizing at a tangent ideas that we've come to in a roundabout way (if you like to keep super close track of what Chomsky is or has been or may well be up to, this is may be more interesting to you.)"
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