Overview
In 1962, Walker Percy (1916-1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene when he won the National Book Award for fiction with his first novel, The Moviegoer. A physician, philosopher, and devout Catholic, Percy dedicated his life to understanding the mixed and somewhat contradictory foundations of American life as a situation faced by the wandering and won-dering human soul. His controversial works combined existential questioning, scientific investigation, the insight of the
- | Author: Peter Augustine Lawler
- | Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
- | Publication Date: Aug 05, 2014
- | Number of Pages: 272 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0813147425
- | ISBN-13: 9780813147420
