People About the Author Walker Percy wrote several books, many of them bestsellers, and is considered one of the greatest American writers of our time.

Edmund Fuller, The Wall Street Journal This is a stunningly innovative collection, for readers who like both to chuckle and to think hard. It is not to be read once through, but to be reread, savored, and pondered. Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review Original and imaginative, it conveys a serious, occasionally somber message in a vein of high comedy.

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. Lost in the Cosmos invites us to think about how we communicate with our world. This favorite of Percy fans continues to charm and beguile readers of all tastes and backgrounds. Book Synopsis Walker Percys mordantly funny and wholly original contribution to the self-help book craze deals with the Western minds tendency toward heavy abstraction. Stunningly innovative, for readers who like both to chuckle and to think hard.-People. Walker Percy's mordantly funny and wholly original contribution to the self-help book craze deals with the Western mind's tendency toward heavy abstraction. His waggishly subtitled The Last Self-Help Book consumes and consummates its many earnestly helpful predecessors by turning these misdirected manuals against themselves. Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book.

About the Book This mordantly funny contribution to the self-help book craze deals with the Western minds tendency toward heavy abstraction. Lost in the Cosmos is Percys self-help book to end all such self-help books that only leave his fictional wanderers more lost.

Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy