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The Last Gentleman is a 1966 novel by Walker Percy. The narrative centers on the character of Williston Bibb Barrett, a man born in the Mississippi Delta who has moved to New York City, where he lives at a YMCA and works as a night janitor.
- Walker Percy
- 1966
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. Publisher: Spring Arbor/Ingram. Genres Fiction Literature Novels Southern Classics Literary Fiction American. ...more.
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- Walker Percy
Acclaimed for his poetic style and moving depictions of the alienation of modern American culture, Percy was the bestselling author of six fiction titles—including the classic novel The Moviegoer...
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4. Sept. 1999 · The Last Gentleman follows displaced southerner Williston Bibb Barrett from New York City to Alabama to New Mexico as he falls in with a southern family loosely connected to his own southern roots. Barrett suffers from a "nervous condition" and experiences occasional losses of memory, deja vu, and "fugue states," accompanied by an ...
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- Walker Percy
THE LAST GENTLEMAN. A NOVEL. by Walker Percy ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 15, 1966. bookshelf. shop now. Walker Percy's The Moviegoer was the rather unexpected National Book Award winner in 1961. His last gentleman suffers from the same contemporary malaise — a kind of dislocation.
29. März 2011 · BiBTeX EndNote RefMan. National Book Award Finalist: A lonely Southerner forges a surprising bond with a New York family in this “brilliant” novel by the author of The Moviegoer (Time)....
