The Last Gentleman

by Walker Percy, Wolfram Kandinsky (Read by)

Overview

Williston Bibb Barrett, the last gentleman of the story, is a displaced Southerner who has dropped out of Princeton owing to a nervous condition that his psychoanalyst associates with an inability to fit into groups. While living in New York City, our wayfarer-hero falls in love with a young woman he spies through a telescope...and sets out on a cross-country odyssey in search of home, identity, and the meaning of contemporary life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441704986
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	07/20/2012
Pages:	1
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.50(h) x 5.00(d)

About the Author

Walker Percy is the author of nine books of fiction and nonfiction, including the bestsellers The Moviegoer and The Thanatos Syndrome. He was awarded numerous prizes in his lifetime, including the National Book Award, and is considered one of the greatest American writers of our time. He lived in Covington, Louisiana, until his death in 1990.

Editorial Reviews

"Lovely and brilliant...a highly whimsical kind of picaresque tale that puts one in mind of both Faulkner and Canneau." -- The Nation

Joyce Carol Oates