REVIEWS

"A brilliant novel....Percy touches the rim of so many human mysteries."—Harper's

“In a gentle Southern accent narrator Christopher Hurt delivers the story with a slow, lazy lilt which suits the text and evokes a pervading spiritual emptiness.” —AudioFile

“Clothed in originality, intelligence, and a fierce regard for man's fate….Percy has a rare talent for making his people look and sound as though they were being seen and heard for the first time by anyone.”—Time

"Mr. Percy is a breathtakingly brilliant writer."—New York Times Book Review

“This elegantly written account of a young man's search for signs of purpose in the universe is one of the great existential texts of the postwar era and is really funny besides.”—Amazon.com Review

WALKER PERCY went to medical school and interned at Bellevue, intending to be a psychiatrist. After a bout with tuberculosis, he married and converted to Catholicism. He became a writer and his first novel, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award and has never been out of print since its publication. He lived with his wife in Covington, Louisiana, where they operated a bookstore until his death in 1990.