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Walker Percy Remembered: A Portrait in the Words of Those Who Knew Him - Softcover

Harwell, David Horace

 
9780807871539: Walker Percy Remembered: A Portrait in the Words of Those Who Knew Him
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807871532 ISBN 13: 9780807871539
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Walker Percy (1916-1990), the reclusive southern author most famous for his 1961 novel The Moviegoer, spent much of his adult life in Covington, Louisiana. In the spirit of traditional southern storytelling, this biography of Percy takes its shape from candid interviews with his family, close friends, and acquaintances. In thirteen interviews, we get to know Percy through his lifelong friend Shelby Foote, Percy's brothers LeRoy and Phin, his former priest, his housekeeper, and former teachers, among others--all in their own words. Over the course of the interviews, readers learn intimate details of Percy's writing process; his interaction with community members of different ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds; and his commitment to civil rights issues. What emerges is a multidimensional portrait of Percy as a man, a friend, and a family member.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. David Horace Harwell is assistant professor of English at the College of the Bahamas in Freeport, Bahamas.

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In the spirit of traditional southern storytelling, this biography of Walker Percy (1916-1990) takes its shape from candid interviews with his family, close friends, and acquaintances. In thirteen interviews, we get to know Percy through his lifelong friend Shelby Foote, Percy's brothers LeRoy and Phin, his former priest, his housekeeper, and former teachers, among others--all in their own words. Over the course of the interviews, readers learn intimate details of Percy's writing process; his interaction with community members of different ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds; and his commitment to civil rights issues.

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In the spirit of traditional southern storytelling, this biography of Walker Percy (1916-1990) takes its shape from candid interviews with his family, close friends, and acquaintances. In thirteen interviews, we get to know Percy through his lifelong friend Shelby Foote, Percy's brothers LeRoy and Phin, his former priest, his housekeeper, and former teachers, among others--all in their own words. Over the course of the interviews, readers learn intimate details of Percy's writing process; his interaction with community members of different ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds; and his commitment to civil rights issues.

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Verlag
The University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807871532
ISBN 13 
9780807871539
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
199
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