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©2024
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974 pages ; 21 cm
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Library of America #380
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"Here in one volume are three novels of spiritual yearning by a writer often compared to his fellow southerner Flannery O'Connor, and to such precursors as Dante and Dostoevsky. In the National Book Award-winning classic The Moviegoer, a New Orleans stockbroker and compulsive cineaste reawakens to the wonder of the world. The Last Gentleman concerns a displaced southerner who takes to the road in a Trav-L-Aire cmper nicknamed 'Ulysses,' accompanied by the terminally ill boy in his charge. And in Love in the Ruins, a satirical work of speculative fiction set in the apocalyptic near future of 1983, Percy imagines a fatally divided America whose salvation hinges on a device that might also spell its doom. The volume includes three related writings by Percy that comment incisively on his work, as well as a newly researched chronology of his life and career."--Dust jacket