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Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy (Chapel Hill Books)

paperback – January 1, 1994
by Tolson, Jay
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ISBN-13: 9780807844472 ISBN-10: 0807844470
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Binding
paperback
Published
January 1, 1994
Weight
1.9 lbs
Dimensions
23.50×4.40×15.90 cm

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Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy (Chapel Hill Books) by Tolson, Jay. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780807844472.

When Walker Percy died in 1990, little was known about this intensely private man whose five novels and countless essays had earned him the reputation as one of Americas greatest writers. Based on extensive interviews and written with access to Percys letters and manuscripts, Pilgrim in the Ruins is the first major biography of the writer, an authoritative portrait that brings Percy alive even as it illuminates his distinguished body of work, from The Moviegoer through The Thanatos Syndrome. First published in hardcover in 1992, Jay Tolsons masterful biography is available now for the first time in paperback. With a novelists eye for character and the judgment of an informed critic, Tolson captures the lifelong drama of genius, always attentive to its artistic, psychological, and spiritual dimensions.