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- Title
- Walker Percy: A Life
- Author
- Patrick H. Samway
- Publisher
- Loyola Pr
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0829412689
- ISBN 13
- 9780829412680
An authorized biography of the distinguished American author traces the complex events of his life, from his childhood and education to his marriage, conversion to Catholicism, and medical and literary career.
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The author is particularly well qualified to evaluate novelist Walker Percy's philosophical interests and 1947 conversion to Catholicism: Patrick Samway, a Jesuit priest, edited a volume of Percy's uncollected essays and another of his correspondence on the subject of American semiotician Charles Sanders Pierce. Although he knew Percy (1916-90) personally in his final years, Samway maintains a scholarly distance in this meticulously researched biography. It does not supplant Jay Tolson's more passionate 1992 assessment, but offers a valuable additional perspective.
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