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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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"I persuaded him once to buy a Lincoln from Chink Baldwin down there in Covington. He had it for two years, and he hated that car. It was ostentatious, and he'd rather be in a pickup or something. He was funny about that. He never bought expensive clothes or anything like that. He never wanted any indication that he was well-fixed. I think he was glad enough not to have to scramble for a living, but he never wanted to be ostentatious to any degree whatsoever."--Shelby Foote, in an interview in Walker Percy Remembered
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Dr. David Horace Harwell is assistant professor of English at the College of the Bahamas in Freeport, Bahamas.
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- PublisherThe University of North Carolina Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0807830399
- ISBN 13 9780807830390
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages200
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