The Message in the Bottle - Walker Percy

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The Message in the Bottle

How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other

Picador, April 2000
ISBN: 978-0-312-25401-8, ISBN10: 0-312-25401-6,
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 272 pages,
Trade Paperback, $16.00

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See All Categories Literature Literary Criticism, Essays, & Biography Philosophy Philosophy - All Titles

In The 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.

Praise

"The Message in the Bottle is a delight . . . A pleasure to read."—Larry McMurtry, The Washington Post Book World

"Percy has an intellectual range and rigor few American novelists can match."—Thomas Leclair, The New York Times Book Review

"This book is worth examining for the confusions it reveals about the study of language and about what can be expected from it."—Thomas Nagel, The New York Review of Books

About the Author(s)

Walker Percy

Walker Percy wrote many books, several of them bestsellers, and is considered one of the greatest American writers of modern times. His first novel, The Moviegoer, won the 1962 National Book Award.

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