The House of Percy [electronic resource] : Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram.
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
1994.
The novels of Walker Percy--The Moviegoer, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome to name a few--have left a permanent mark on twentieth-century Southern fiction; yet the history of the Percy family in America matches anything, perhaps, that he could have created.  Twocenturies of wealth, literary accomplishment, political leadership, depression, and sometimes suicide established a fascinating legacy that lies behind Walker Percy's acclaimed prose and profound insight into the human condition.  In The House of Percy, Bertram Wyatt-Brown masterfully interprets the life of this g
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Contents; PROLOGUE: The Brooding Knight; PART ONE: The Early Male Percys; PART TWO: The Female Line; PART THREE: The Greenville Percys; PART FOUR: Fiction, Legend, and Lineage; APPENDICES: Genealogical Charts; A Selected List of Manuscript Collections; Notes; Index
The novels of Walker Percy--The Moviegoer, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome to name a few--have left a permanent mark on twentieth-century Southern fiction; yet the history of the Percy family in America matches anything, perhaps, that he could have created.  Twocenturies of wealth, literary accomplishment, political leadership, depression, and sometimes suicide established a fascinating legacy that lies behind Walker Percy's acclaimed prose and profound insight into the human condition.  In The House of Percy, Bertram Wyatt-Brown masterfully interprets the life of this g
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Percy family.
Percy, Walker, 1916-1990.
Percy, William Alexander, 1885-1942.
Dorsey, Sarah A. (Sarah Anne), 1829-1879.
Authors, American.
Intellectuals.
Percy family.
Authors, American
Authors, American
Authors, American
Intellectuals
History & Archaeology
Biography - General