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The
Moviegoer |
This elegantly written account of a young man's search for
signs of purpose in the universe is one of the great existential
texts of the postwar era and is really funny besides. Binx
Bolling, inveterate cinemaphile, contemplative rake and man
of the periphery, tries hedonism and tries doing the... Read
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Love
in the Ruins |
Dr. Tom More has created a miraculous instrument -- the
Ontological Lapsometer, a kind of stethoscope of the human
spirit. With it, he plans to cure mankind's spiritual flu.
Though scorned by the experts, Tom embarks on an outrageous
odyssey to prove himself. Attempting to save the world from
destruction, Tom ultimately begins to understand what he can
never really know -- the quality and caprices of life and
the uncontrollable vagaries of time and chance... read
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Lost
in the Cosmos : The Last Self-Help Book |
The late Walker Percy's mordant contribution to the self-help
book craze of the 1980s deals with the heavy abstraction of
the Western mind and speculates about why writers may be the
most abstracted and least grounded of all. (Before taking
up novel writing, Percy was a medical doctor who became a...
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The
Second Coming |
Will Barrett, a lonely widower, suffers from a depression
so strange and severe that he decides he doesn't want to continue
living. But then he meets Allison, a mental hospital escapee
making a new life for herself, living alone in a greenhouse.
What follows is by turns touching and zany, tragic and...
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