The Message in the Bottle

From the National Book Award–winning author of The Moviegoer : “These essays . . . have a way of quickening the spirit and cleansing the sight” ( The New Republic ).  Before winning the National Book Award for fiction in 1962, Walker Percy was an established scholar of science, philosophy, and language. Presented here are his strongest essays in those subjects, offering what he called a “theory of man for a new age.” Ambitious yet readable, The Message in the Bottle encapsula