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Can I read Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book on EtoBox?
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book by Percy, Walker is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book about?
“A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke . . . to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Filled with quizzes, essays, short stories, and diagrams, Lost in the Cosmos is National Book Award–winning author Walker Percy’s humorous take on a familiar genre—as well as an invitation to serious contemplation of life’s biggest questions. One part parody and two parts philosophy, Lost in the Cosmos is an enlightening guide to the dilemmas of human existence, and an unrivaled spin on self-help manuals by one of modern America’s greatest literary masters.
Who reads Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Percy, Walker
- Publisher
- Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781453216361
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 4.07 / 5 (30 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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