The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other

Percy, Walker

ISBN 10: 0374513384 / ISBN 13: 9780374513382

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980

About this Item

Paperback; sixth printing; scuffing, soiling, and shelf wear to exterior; bookstore stub inside front cover; fade spots to page edges; in good condition with clean text, firm binding.

Seller Inventory # 102500

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374513384
• ISBN 13: 9780374513382
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: UsedGood

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Synopsis

In Message in the Bottle, Walker Percy offers insights on such varied yet interconnected subjects as symbolic reasoning, the origins of mankind, Helen Keller, Semioticism, and the incredible Delta Factor. Confronting difficult philosophical questions with a novelist's eye, Percy rewards us again and again with his keen insights into the way that language possesses all of us.

In Message in the Bottle, Walker Percy offers insights on such varied yet interconnected subjects as symbolic reasoning, the origins of mankind, Helen Keller, Semioticism, and the incredible Delta Factor. Confronting difficult philosophical questions with a novelist's eye, Percy rewards us again and again with his keen insights into the way that language possesses all of us.

From the Publisher

"These essays have a way of quickening the spirit and cleansing the sight." -The New Republic
"Walker Percy is that admirable thing-a man who has fallen in love with an idea, an analytical, academic, philosophical man, in fact. Yet the novelist in him cannot help but come out."-JOHN CIARDI, The Saturday Review "Walker Percy has an intellectual range and rigor few American novelists can match."-THOMAS LECLAIR, The New York Times Book Review