Walker Percy
The Last Gentleman
Hardcover
(Farrar Straus & Giroux Jan. 1, 1966)
, 1st edition
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.
- ISBN
- 0374183724 / 9780374183721
- Pages
- 409
- Weight
- 19.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.8 x 1.4
in.