A collection of essays explores such issues as the art of writing novels, the Civil War, semiotics, the physician as novelist, faith, abortion, the future of the Church, movie magazines, and education

Signposts in a Strange Land

Literature & Fiction

Walker Percy

Essays & Correspondence

The Noonday Press

Walker Percy's mordantly funny and wholly original contribution to the self-help book craze deals with the Western mind's tendency toward heavy abstraction. This favorite of Percy fans continues to charm and beguile readers of all tastes and backgrounds. Lost in the Cosmos invites us to think about how we communicate with our world.

Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Noonday Pr

Winner of the 1961 National Book Award The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback. The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he yearns for a spiritual redemption he cannot bring himself to believe in. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he occupies himself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the "treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a hare-brained quest that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, and sends him reeling through the chaos of New Orleans' French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic.

The Moviegoer

Literary

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

The Moviegoer (Panther Books)

GRANADA

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Read by David Hilder] When Dr. Tom More (of Love in the Ruins) is released on parole from state prison, he returns to Feliciana, Louisiana, the parish where he was born and bred, and where he practiced psychiatry before his arrest. Upon arriving, he notices something strange in almost everyone around him: unusual sexual behavior in women patients, a bizarre loss of inhibition, a lack of complexity in speech -- even his own wife's extraordinary success at bridge tournaments, during which her mind seems to function like a computer. With the ingenious help of his attractive cousin, Dr. Lucy Lipscomb, More begins to uncover a criminal experiment to ''improve'' people's behavior by drugging the local water supply. But beyond this scheme are activities so sinister that even Tom More wouldn't believe them if he hadn't witnessed them with his own eyes.

The Thanatos Syndrome

Genre Fiction

Grafton Books

The Second Coming

Pocket

Walker Percy, the distinguished novelist, has come up with a new breed of book - a mixture of humor, odd news briefs, and fiction, about boredom, money, poverty, sex, fear, exhilaration, and religion, science and movie trivia. (People Magazine)

Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help

Washington Square Press

Man so depressed over the death of his wife that he doesn't wish to go on living -- but he meets a woman who happens to be an escapee from a mental hospital. Materials that always make for a fantastic southern 'author' experience.

Lost in the Cosmos

A wonderful philosophical treatise for our times.

Contemporary

Washington Square, 1984

The Last Gentleman

Ivy Books February

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Books by Walker Percy