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Learning to ‘Love in the Ruins’

Novelist Walker Percy sits in his Covington, La., yard, June 8, 1977. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell)

Jack Thornell
Novelist Walker Percy sits in his Covington, La., yard, June 8, 1977.

Half a century after its publication, Walker Percy’s ‘Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World’ may be more valuable today than ever before.