From daveduty at austin.rr.com Sun Jun 29 19:09:42 2003 From: daveduty at austin.rr.com (Dave Duty) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 18:09:42 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] Re: A handsome new book References: <1ce.6802633.2bbb617f@aol.com> Message-ID: <3EFF71B6.5070005@austin.rr.com> Nikki -- sorry to wait so long to acknowledge this book. I just finished it and more than share you positive account. This Paul Elie is a super find. He doesn't pull any punches. I hope to make it to the WP symposium this year and would really like to set some time aside for us to have dinner and/or grab a drink. Allbest wishes -- Dave Duty Nikkibar at aol.com wrote: > Dear List, > > Farrar Strauss and Giroux has just published The Life You save May be > Your Own, by Paul Elie. It is truly a handsome volume and well worth > the price to anyone interested in the Percy Canon. The book compares > and delves into the work of Thomas Merton, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy > Day and Walker with the tenderest of loving care. > > Paul is one of the younger editors at FS&G and a delightful fellow. I > met him last year and we toured the Percy haunts about Covington > including the cemetery at the Abbey where Walker is buried. > > I think that this book will be requisite to anyone's work who is doing > scholarship on Walker's oeuvre along with the Tolson and Samway bios > and the Coversations. > > > Nikki > Nikki > >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >>-- >> >>An archive of all list discussion is available at http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy/hypermail >> >>Visit the Walker Percy Project at http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: