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Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy
by Tolson, Jay
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author.
- ISBN 10
- 0671657070
- ISBN 13
- 9780671657079
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author.. 544 p. Illustrations. Selected Geneaology. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Walker Percy's first novel, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award for the young Southern gentleman. Although millions have read Percy's books, few understand his deeply troubled, deeply Southern family past. Tolson takes readers into the great salons of the literary South in this first major biography of Percy.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60485
- Title
- Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy
- Author
- Tolson, Jay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0671657070
- ISBN 13
- 9780671657079
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Lawrence Baldwin, Covington, Louisiana, Civil Rights, Robert Coles, Shelby Foote, Robert Giroux, Stanley Kauffmann, Suicide, Melancholy, Catholic Church, Caroline Gordon, Allen Tate, Eudora Welty, Robert Coles, Thomas Merton
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