Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy

by Jay Tolson, 544 pp., 32 illus., paper (UNC Press)

"No one has explored Percy's early life with the thoroughness and knowing subtlety Tolson has managed."--Robert Coles, Commonweal

"Other lives of Walker Percy will follow . . . but Jay Tolson has set a high mark for his own successors: His man breathes, moves and weighs in the reader's hand as sterling and of lasting worth."--Reynolds Price, USA Today

Winner of the Southern Book Award for Nonfiction, Southern Book Critics Circle, 1993
Named one of 1992's Notable Books by the New York Times Book Review
Named one of the Ten Best Books of 1992 by USA Today

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Go to a review of Pilgrim in the Ruins (Jonathan Potter).