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Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

Contributor(s): Percy, Walker (Author)

ISBN: 9780312253998

Publisher: Picador USA

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Pub Date: April 1, 2000

Dewey: 818.5407

LCCN: 99087846

Lexile Code: 0000

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Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.72" H x 8.14" L x 5.64" W ( 0.54 lbs) 272 pages

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Literary Collections | Essays

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Description: This mordantly funny contribution to the self-help book craze deals with the Western mind's tendency toward heavy abstraction. "Stunningly innovative, for readers who like both to chuckle and to think hard."--"People."

Brief description: Walker Percy wrote several books, many of them bestsellers, and is considered one of the greatest American writers of our time. His books include The Moviegoer and Love in the Ruins.

Review Quotes:

"A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke; a chapbook to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess." --Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Original and imaginative, it conveys a serious, occasionally somber message in a vein of high comedy. I love this book. It is not to be read once through, but to be reread, savored, and pondered." --Edmund Fuller, The Wall Street Journal

"This is a stunningly innovative collection, for readers who like both to chuckle and to think hard." --People

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