- Death, Fiction in English, Fiction, Young men
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.
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Prestige, classical in form, grave and contemplative.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Walker Percy
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 409
- Publisher
- Secker and Warburg, Avon Books, Picador USA
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780679602729
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