The Message in the Bottle (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Walker Percy
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Cultural anthropology
- Genres: Nonfiction, Anthropology
- Subjects: Culture, Language or languages, Communication, Human race, Human behavior, Speech, Senses or sensation, Thought or thinking, Vision
Form and Content
Although Walker Percy was trained as a physician, he never became active in his profession. During his internship at Bellevue Hospital, in New York City, he contracted tuberculosis. As a result, he was forced to spend nearly three years in convalescence, first at Lake Saranac, New York, and then at a sanatorium in Connecticut, in which he found himself in the bed once occupied by Eugene O’Neill. Percy’s illness caused him to evaluate the sufficiency of the scientific, empirical education which he had received. He decided that it was excellent—so far as...
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