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" Signposts in a Strange Land. "
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BL
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843626
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Percy, Walker.
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Signposts in a Strange Land.
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| Publication Statement
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Open Road Media,, 2011.
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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1306601878
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: 1453216375
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: 9781306601870
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: 9781453216378
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| Contents
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Cover Page; Title Page; Table of Contents; One Life in the South; Why I Live Where I Live; New Orleans Mon Amour; The City of the Dead; Going Back to Georgia; Mississippi: The Fallen Paradise; Uncle Will; Uncle Will's House; A Better Louisiana; The American War; Red, White, and Blue-Gray; Stoicism in the South; A Southern View; The Southern Moderate; Bourbon; Two Science, Language, Literature; Is a Theory of Man Possible?; Naming and Being; The State of the Novel: Dying Art or New Science?; Novel-Writing in an Apocalyptic Time.
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A "Cranky Novelist" Reflects on the ChurchThe Failure and the Hope; A View of Abortion, with Something to Offend Everybody; Foreword to The New Catholics; If I Had Five Minutes with the Pope; An Unpublished Letter to the Times; Another Message in the Bottle; The Holiness of the Ordinary; Epilogue An Interview and a Self-interview; An Interview with Zoltán Abádí-Nagy; Questions They Never Asked Me; Bibliography and Notes; Biography; Copyright Page.
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How to Be an American Novelist in Spite of Being Southern and CatholicFrom Facts to Fiction; Physician as Novelist; Herman Melville; Diagnosing the Modern Malaise; Eudora Welty in Jackson; Foreword to A Confederacy of Dunces; Rediscovering A Canticle for Leibowitz; The Movie Magazine: A Low "Slick"; Accepting the National Book Award for The Moviegoer; Concerning Love in the Ruins; The Coming Crisis in Psychiatry; The Culture Critics; The Fateful Rift: The San Andreas Fault in the Modern Mind; Three Morality and Religion; Culture, the Church, and Evangelization; Why Are You a Catholic?
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A captivating collection of writings on Southern life by one of the masters of American literaturePublished just after Walker Percy's death, Signposts in a Strange Land takes readers through the philosophical, religious, and literary ideas of one of the South's most profound and unique thinkers. Each essay is laced with wit and insight into the human condition. From race relations and the mysteries of existence, to Catholicism and the joys of drinking bourbon, this collection offers a window into the underpinnings of Percy's celebrated novels and brings to light the stirring thoughts and voice of a giant of twentieth century literature.
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Percy, Walker,1916-1990
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Percy, Walker,1916-1990.
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Fiction-- Authorship.
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Novelists, American-- 20th century, Interviews.
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Civilization.
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Fiction-- Authorship.
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Novelists, American.
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Southern States, Civilization.
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Southern States.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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| LC Classification
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PS3566.E6912 S57 2011
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