[percy-l] Percy in LOA

Doug Brown wply1223 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 19 17:05:19 EDT 2023


Wow, Rhonda, those are exactly my choices - for very much the same reasons.

Doug


On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 4:46 PM Karey Perkins <kareyperkins at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Rhonda!
>
> Thanks for the link and the research!
>
> To answer your question:  My favorites include The Moviegoer (and because
> it won the National Book Award, seems a logical first choice to include in
> the LoA).  I also would choose Love in the Ruins, the first novel I read by
> Percy which made me a lifelong lover of his fiction, but also because it is
> so prescient about our society today.  But I’d skip The Last Gentleman
> (which I never liked as much as the others despite the fact it was chosen
> for the Modern Library publication).   For the LoA, I'd include my personal
> favorite, The Second Coming.  I think Percy does his best job of female
> characterization in that novel, not to mention, it’s more upbeat, an
> enjoyable read.  There’s tons of cool symbolism and allusions in it too.
> If I got to choose four, I’d add Lancelot as I think it is particularly
> well-written and tightly plotted.
>
> Karey
>
>
>
> On Jun 19, 2023, at 11:40 AM, RHONDA MCDONNELL <rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com>
> wrote:
>
> Great news, Michael! For those interest, here’s the post.
> https://loa.org/news-and-views/2155-forthcoming-spring-2024
>
> Paul Elie is the editor. What does everyone think of the choices he
> included?
>
> Rhonda
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 18, 2023, at 11:34 AM, Michael Martin Serafin <
> michael_serafin at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Today I learned that Percy will be published by Library Of America next
> Spring. In one volume will be his first 3 novels, his National Book Award
> speech, an intro he wrote for another edition of MOVIEGOER, and a speech he
> gave regarding RUINS.
>
> Michael Serafin
>
>
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