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The Moviegoer

Author : Walker Percy
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453216251
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Moviegoer written by Walker Percy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this National Book Award–winning novel from a “brilliantly breathtaking writer,” a young Southerner searches for meaning in the midst of Mardi Gras (The New York Times Book Review). On the cusp of his thirtieth birthday, Binx Bolling is a lost soul. A stockbroker and member of an established New Orleans family, Binx’s one escape is the movie theater that transports him from the falseness of his life. With Mardi Gras in full swing, Binx, along with his cousin Kate, sets out to find his true purpose amid the excesses of the carnival that surrounds him. Buoyant yet powerful, The Moviegoer is a poignant indictment of modern values, and an unforgettable story of a week that will change two lives forever. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Walker Percy including rare photos from the author’s estate.

Lancelot

Author : Walker Percy
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453216170
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Lancelot written by Walker Percy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIV“A modern knight-errant on a quest after evil; grotesque, convincing and chilling.” —The New York Times Book Review/divDIV/divDIVFed up with the excesses of the 1970s, Lancelot Andrews Lamar, a liberal lawyer and distinguished member of the New Orleans gentry, is determined to stop the modern world’s ethical collapse. His quest begins with his wife—an actress who he suspects has been cheating on him for years. Though he initially plans only to gather proof of her infidelity, Lancelot quickly descends into a fog of obsession. And as he crosses the line from sanity into madness, he will try once and for all to purify the world or destroy it in the attempt./divDIV /divDIVMesmerizing and unforgettable, Lancelot is a masterful story of one man’s collision with the follies of modern culture, and a thought-provoking look at the nature of good and evil./div /div

Lost in the Cosmos

Author : Walker Percy
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453216340
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Lost in the Cosmos written by Walker Percy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke . . . to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Filled with quizzes, essays, short stories, and diagrams, Lost in the Cosmos is National Book Award–winning author Walker Percy’s humorous take on a familiar genre—as well as an invitation to serious contemplation of life’s biggest questions. One part parody and two parts philosophy, Lost in the Cosmos is an enlightening guide to the dilemmas of human existence, and an unrivaled spin on self-help manuals by one of modern America’s greatest literary masters.

Films from the Future

Author : Andrew Maynard
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1633539067
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Films from the Future written by Andrew Maynard and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Deftly shows how a seemingly frivolous film genre can guide us in shaping tomorrow’s world.” —Seth Shostak, senior astronomer, SETI Institute Artificial intelligence, gene manipulation, cloning, and interplanetary travel are all ideas that seemed like fairy tales but a few years ago. And now their possibilities are very much here. But are we ready to handle these advances? This book, by a physicist and expert on responsible technology development, reveals how science fiction movies can help us think about and prepare for the social consequences of technologies we don’t yet have, but that are coming faster than we imagine. Films from the Future looks at twelve movies that take us on a journey through the worlds of biological and genetic manipulation, human enhancement, cyber technologies, and nanotechnology. Readers will gain a broader understanding of the complex relationship between science and society. The movies mix old and new, and the familiar and unfamiliar, to provide a unique, entertaining, and ultimately transformative take on the power of emerging technologies, and the responsibilities they come with.

Love in the Ruins

Author : Walker Percy
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453216200
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Ruins written by Walker Percy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIV“A great adventure . . . So outrageous and so real, one is left speechless.” —Chicago Sun Times/divDIV/divDIVIn Walker Percy’s future America, the country is on the brink of disaster. With citizens violently polarized along racial, political, and social lines, and a fifteen-year war still raging abroad, America is crumbling quickly into ruin. The country’s one remaining hope is Dr. Thomas More, whose “lapsometer” is capable of diagnosing the spiritual afflictions—anxiety, depression, alienation—driving everyone’s destructive and disastrous behavior./divDIV /divDIVBut such a potent machine has its pitfalls. As Dr. More soon learns, in the wrong hands, the powerful lapsometer could lead to open warfare, pushing America into anarchy at full-speed./div /div

Hollywood Escapes

Author : Harry Medved
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429907177
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Escapes written by Harry Medved and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LET THE MOVIES BE YOUR GUIDE! * Hike THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE Trail! * Behold the KILL BILL Chapel! * Enter THE DOORS Indian Caves! * Swim at BEACH BLANKET BINGO's Malibu! * Escape to SOME LIKE IT HOT's Resort! * Raft the STAGECOACH River! * Explore HIGH PLAIN DRIFTER's Ghostly Lake! * Trek to the LOST HORIZON Waterfall! * Discover the STAR WARS Sand Dunes! Here is the first comprehensive guide to Southern California's outdoor filming locations taking you to more than 50 of the Golden State's most cinematic beaches, mountains, deserts, lakes, hot springs and waterfalls. Illustrated with over 100 scenic photos and 20 easy-to-read maps, Hollywood Escapes: The Moviegoer's Guide to Exploring Southern California's Great Outdours not only takes you to movie history's most memorable destinations, but also recommends places to dine and lodge along the way, from mountain hideaways to beach side resorts. Written by inveterate movie buffs and outdoors enthusiasts Harry Medved and Bruce Akiyama, these two native Southern Californians have interviewed dozens of actors, filmmakers, location scouts and rangers to help you explore Hollywood's most spectacular scenery.

Signposts in a Strange Land

Author : Walker Percy
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312254193
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (541 download)

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Download or read book Signposts in a Strange Land written by Walker Percy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At his death in 1990, Walker Percy left a considerable legacy of uncollected nonfiction. Assembled in Signposts in a Strange Land, these essays on language, literature, philosophy, religion, psychiatry, morality, and life and letters in the South display the imaginative versatility of an author considered by many to be one the greatest modern American writers.

Walker Percy's The Moviegoer at Fifty

Author : Jennifer Levasseur
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807162744
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Walker Percy's The Moviegoer at Fifty written by Jennifer Levasseur and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty years after its publication, Walker Percy's National Book Award Winner, The Moviegoer, still confronts, comforts, and enlightens generations of readers. This collection of twelve new essays, edited and introduced by Jennifer Levasseur and Mary A. McCay, emphasize the evolving significance of this seminal, New Orleans novel. Authors' consider the text with diverse perspectives, drawing from philosophy, theology, disability theory, contemporary music and literature, social media, and film studies. Jay Tolson opens the volume with reflections on rereading the novel on a Kindle decades after writing his important biography of Percy. H. Collin Messer, Montserrat Gins, Jessica Hooten Wilson, and Brian Jobe follow with illuminating essays analyzing Percy's influences, from St. Augustine and Cervantes to Heidegger and Dostoevsky. Jonathan Potter and Read Mercer Schuchardt, Mary A. McCay, Matthew Luter, and Dorian Speed delve into the novel's significance to cinema, including an exhaustive guide to its film references, a meditation on Binx Bolling as a director of his existence, and the semiotics of celebrity. Brent Walter Cline and Robert Bolton, Michael Kobre, and L. Lamar Nisly present a roadmap for Bolling's inward journey, exploring a variety of elements from the role of the broken body to the spiritual connection to Bruce Springsteen lyrics. Walker Percy's The Moviegoer at Fifty is the first critical work devoted solely to the author's debut novel. Coinciding with the centenary of Percy's birth, this collection invites both new and veteran readers to enjoy The Moviegoer with fresh perspectives that underscore its lasting relevance.

The Thanatos Syndrome

Author : Walker Percy
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453216316
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Thanatos Syndrome written by Walker Percy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVPercy’s stirring sequel to Love in the Ruins follows Tom More’s redemptive mission to cure the mysterious ailment afflicting the residents of his hometown/divDIV/divDIVDr. Tom More returns to his parish in Louisiana determined to live a simpler life. Fresh out of prison after getting caught selling uppers to truck drivers, he wants nothing more than to live “a small life.” But when everyone in town begins acting strangely—from losing their sexual inhibitions to speaking only in blunt, truncated sentences—More, with help from his cousin Lucy Lipscomb, takes it upon himself to reveal what and who is responsible. Their investigation leads them to the highest seats of power, where they discover that a government conspiracy is poised to rob its citizens of their selves, their free will, and ultimately their humanity./div /div

Walker Percy's Search for Community

Author : John F. Desmond
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820325880
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Walker Percy's Search for Community written by John F. Desmond and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this criticism of Percy, John F. Desmond traces the writer's enduring concerns with community. These concerns, Desmond argues, were grounded in the realism of such Scholastics as Aquinas and Duns Scotus.

The Message in the Bottle

Author : Walker Percy
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374513382
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Message in the Bottle written by Walker Percy and published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. This book was released on 1975-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Message" i"n 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.

The Horror of It All

Author : Adam Rockoff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476761868
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Horror of It All written by Adam Rockoff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pop culture history meets blood-soaked memoir as Adam Rockoff, “a passionate fan of the horror genre in all its forms,” (The New York Times) recalls a life spent watching blockbuster slasher films, cult classics, and everything in between. Horror films have simultaneously captivated and terrified audiences for generations, racking up millions of dollars at the box office and infusing our nightmares with chainsaws, goblins, and blood-spattered machetes. Today’s hottest television shows feature classic horror elements, from marauding zombies and sexy vampires to myriad incarnations of the devil himself. Yet the horror genre and its controversial offshoots continue to occupy a nebulous space in our critical dialogue. The Horror of It All is a memoir from the front lines of the horror industry that dissects (and occasionally defends) the massively popular phenomenon of scary movies. Author Adam Rockoff delivers “the sharpest pop culture criticism you’ll find in any medium today,” (Rue Morgue) as he traces the highs and lows of the genre through the lens of his own obsessive fandom, which began in the horror aisles of his childhood video store and continued with a steady diet of cable trash. From the convergence of horror and heavy metal, to Siskel and Ebert’s crusade against the slasher flick, to the legacy of the Scream franchise, and the behind-the-scenes work of horror directors and make-up artists, Rockoff mines the rich history of the genre, braiding critical analysis with his own firsthand experiences as a horror writer and producer. Filled with mordant wit and sharp insight, The Horror of It All “is an amiable and often amusing guide” (Kirkus Reviews) that explains why horror films not only endure, but continue to prosper. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Dangling Man

Author : Saul Bellow
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141389303
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Dangling Man written by Saul Bellow and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expecting to be inducted into the army, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups delays his induction, he finds himself facing a year of idleness. Dangling Man is his journal, a wonderful account of his restless wanderings through Chicago's streets, his musings on the past, his psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him, and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice.

Lost Illusions

Author : David A. Cook
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520232655
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Lost Illusions written by David A. Cook and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-03-15 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the development of film and the film industry during the 1970s and the political and economic background that influenced it.

The Correspondence of Shelby Foote & Walker Percy

Author : Shelby Foote
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393317688
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The Correspondence of Shelby Foote & Walker Percy written by Shelby Foote and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death of Foote's mother and Percy's battle with cancer, their letters are full of sly humor, good-natured ribbing, and a large dose of self-mockery.

The Chateau

Author : William Maxwell
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307809366
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Chateau written by William Maxwell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside and people are war-battered, and their reception at the Chateau Beaumesnil is not all the open-hearted Americans could wish for.

Fake Accounts

Author : Lauren Oyler
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008366543
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Fake Accounts written by Lauren Oyler and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE A wry, provocative and very funny debut novel about identity, authenticity and the self in the age of the internet ‘I loved it’ Zadie Smith ‘Brilliant, very funny’ Guardian ‘Prepare to feel very seen’ I-D