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Lewis A. Lawson (Editor), Victor A. Kramer (Editor)
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September 1, 1985 Literary Conversations
These collected interviews, like a visit with Percy at his home on the Bogue Falaya River, provide refreshing close-up encounters with one of America's most celebrated writers.

These twenty-seven interviews cover a period of twenty-two years, from the time of the publication of Percy's first novel, The Moviegoer, in 1961, until 1983, when he was interviewed about his friendship with Thomas Merton.

This volume is the second in the Literary Conversations series. These unabridged interviews, collected from a variety of sources, will give reading pleasure to general readers who wish to know Percy and his works more closely, and they will be of great use to Percy scholars.


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  • Paperback: 342 pages
  • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi; Reprint edition (September 1, 1985)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0878052526
  • ISBN-13: 978-0878052523
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #913,923 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Walker Percy (1916-1990) was one of the most prominent American writers of the twentieth century. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, he was the oldest of three brothers in an established Southern family that contained both a Civil War hero and a U.S. senator. Acclaimed for his poetic style and moving depictions of the alienation of modern American culture, Percy was the bestselling author of six fiction titles--including the classic novel The Moviegoer (1961), winner of the National Book Award--and fifteen works of nonfiction. In 2005, Time magazine named The Moviegoer one of the best English-language books published since 1923.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Reading for Percy Enthusiasts, July 31, 2001
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This volume (and its companion, More Conversations With Walker Percy) offers a fascinating and compelling glimpse into the mind of Walker Percy and a valuable study of the development of his literary and philosophical convictions as his career progressed. Though Percy's funny satirical piece "Questions They Never Asked Me" would seem to indicate that he found interviews dull and repetitive, the best pieces here clearly demonstrate the pleasure he took in discussing his ideas with an interested, engaged interviewer.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Deeply satisfying addition to your Walker Percy Collection, October 23, 2002
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Although Percy's output was prodigious compared to some literary greats, his six novels and two major non-fiction works leave his still-growing network of fans looking for more. "Conversations with Walker Percy" meets that need. While the biographies of Percy are helpful, there's nothing quite like hearing it straight from the author in this series of interviews. I finished the volume feeling ready to tackle his novels again prepared to look for gems I'd missed the last time around.
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5.0 out of 5 stars In 1961, who won the NATIONAL Book award? J.D. Salinger, Joseph Heller, or Walker Percy?, February 1, 2010
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Walker Percy is the greatest American novelist of the later half of the 20th century. Why? Because he understood the mind of the character and placed him in a an existential conundrum which we all share as part of our own DNA. We become the character because the placement in a particular situation is compelling and real. In effect it is commonplace and ordinary. Now, in 1961 WP beat out Salinger and Heller as a last minute entry by his publisher. Sometimes chance has a way of making the world just a little bit brighter. A great book.
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An illness which forced WALKER PERCY, of Covington, Louisiana, to abandon his career as a doctor, led to his novel-writing: "The years of education were by no means wasted, however, since my first writings were on scientific subjects and were published in scholarly journals. Read the first page
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last gentleman, horizontal search, triadic theory, southern writing, aesthetic stage, religious stage, scientific humanism
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Walker Percy, Will Barrett, New Orleans, New York, Binx Bolling, North Carolina, Aunt Emily, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas More, National Book Award, Gabriel Marcel, William Alexander Percy, Chapel Hill, Columbia University, Bogue Falaya, Civil War, Eudora Welty, Charles Peirce, Mark Twain, Saul Bellow, Bellevue Hospital, Jimmy Carter, Susanne Langer, The Brothers Karamazov, Caroline Gordon
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