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Percy was a doctor who caught tuberculosis, spent years in a sanatorium reading Kierkegaard, converted to Catholicism, and then wrote six novels about American men who cannot work out why an ordinary Tuesday feels like a catastrophe. He also wrote a self-help parody that is one of the strangest books published by a major American novelist.
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Walker Percy Reading Order: Where to Start with the Novels and the Essays
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- Percy was a doctor who caught tuberculosis, spent years in a sanatorium reading Kierkegaard, converted to Catholicism, and then wrote six novels about American men who cannot work out why an ordinary Tuesday feels like a catastrophe. He also wrote a self-help parody that is one of the strangest books published by a major American novelist.
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