Name: The Message in the Bottle
ISBN: 9780312254018

Walker Percy

"First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux"--T.p. verso.

How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other

The Message in the Bottle

Simon Elliott Stegall

Highly recommend the first half of this book. Percy's essays on perception and language are delightful when he stays in the realm of the literary, examining how culture and language effects our ability to perceive things as beautiful, meaningful, etc. Absolutely delightful. Will reread.

But the second half of the book takes a solid nose-dive into the concrete block of 1970s semiotic theory. Hoo boy. Interesting to some, no doubt, but held very little for me. 

I confess I skimmed the last several chapters. Still, the first half is well worth even purchasing the book.

The Message in the Bottle How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other

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