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The last gentleman by Walker Percy · Booklabria

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The last gentleman

FriendshipLove stories

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First published: 1966
Language: English
Editions: 18

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: Friendship
Love stories
New york
Death
Children
City and town life
Set in: New York

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