id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2507 Walker Percy - Wikipedia .html text/html 4666 604 72 Percy is noted for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans; his first novel, The Moviegoer, won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.[1] Percy later wrote of the novel that it was the story of "a young man who had all the advantages of a cultivated old-line southern family: a feel for science and art, a liking for girls, sports cars, and the ordinary things of the culture, but who nevertheless feels himself quite alienated from both worlds, the old South and the new America."[27] According to scholars such as Anne Berthoff and Linda Whitney Hobson, Percy presented a new way of viewing the struggles of the common man by his specific use of anecdotes and language.[29][28] Loyola University New Orleans has multiple archival and manuscript collections related to Percy's life and work.[43] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2507.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2507.txt