The Last Gentleman
A Novel
ISBN10: 0312243081
ISBN13: 9780312243081
Trade Paperback
416 Pages
$21.00
CA$28.50
Will Barrett is a 25-year-old wanderer from the South living in New York City, detached from his roots and with no plans for the future, until the purchase of a telescope sets off a romance and changes his life forever.
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Praise for The Last Gentleman
"Splendid . . . A beautifully textured novel [and] a distinguished work of art . . . Percy's perception luminously lights up obscure depths of experience without at the same time explaining that experience away."—The New York Times Book Review
"Lovely and brilliant . . . A highly whimsical kind of picaresque tale that puts one in mind of both Faulkner and Canneau."—Joyce Carol Oates, The Nation
"Breaks your heart in the midst of laughter."—Philadelphia Inquirer
"Brilliant . . . It shimmers with the chaste and civilized ornaments of irony, understatement, and compassion."—Time