The Last Gentleman
Author: Walker Percy
Will Barrett is a 25-year-old wanderer from the South living in New York City, detached from his roots and with no plans for the future, until the purchase of a telescope sets off a romance and changes his life forever…..Read More
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Electric Beach
Mike Connolly, a fifty-something attorney, is now a recovering alcoholic, divorced from his wife and estranged from his daughter.While researching a murder case, a string of clues takes him to… Continue Reading Posted in: Connolly, Mike (Fictitious Character), Trials (Murder)
The Second Coming
Will Barrett (also the hero of Percy's The Last Gentleman) is a lonely widower suffering from a depression so severe that he decides he doesn't want to continue living. But… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Psychiatric Hospital Patients, Psychological Fiction, Psychological Literary Fiction, Psychology
Love in the Ruins
Dr. Tom More has created a stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he embarks on an unforgettable odyssey to cure mankind's spiritual flu. This novel confronts both the value… Continue Reading Posted in: Classics, Fiction, Literature
Gulf Stream
Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Set in Mobile, Alabama, Gulf Stream, the 1930 novel by Marie Stanley (Marie Layet Sheip), is an important part of Alabama’s literary heritage. A stunning first person performance by a… Continue Reading Posted in: American Literature, Languages & Literatures, Women
What The Red Moon Knows
Who is the man Ruth England sees getting into a yellow Cadillac one afternoon? Is it Elvis Presley--long thought dead--with whom she had a brief romantic encounter when she was… Continue Reading
The Moviegoer
Winner of the 1961 National Book AwardThe dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Fiction, Psychology, Young Men Psychology
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
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… Continue Reading Posted in: American Wit And Humor, Self Help Techniques
Other Voices, Other Rooms
When Joel Knox's mother dies, he is sent into the exotic unknown of the Deep South to live with a father he has never seen. But once he gets there,… Continue Reading Posted in: Bildungsromans, Fiction, Mothers Death
The Heaven Tree
England in the reign of King John - a time of beauty and squalor, of swift treachery and unswerving loyalty. Against this violent background, the story of Harry Talvace, master… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Historical
The Deposition: A Novel
Told in real time, The Deposition continues the story of Mike Connolly, the-down-and-out attorney.This time, Mike's story is told through the eyes of his friends—and his enemies. The woman he… Continue Reading Posted in: Connolly, Detective And Mystery Stories, Mike (Fictitious Character)
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