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Cover of Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World

Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World

✍ Scribed by Percy, Walker

Book ID
109206172
Publisher
Open Road Media
Year
1971
Tongue
English
Weight
400 KB
Series
Dr. Tom More 1
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781453216224

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In Walker Percy’s future America, the country is on the brink of disaster. With citizens violently polarized along racial, political, and social lines, and a fifteen-year war still raging abroad, America is crumbling quickly into ruin. The country’s one remaining hope is Dr. Thomas More, whose “lapsometer” is capable of diagnosing the spiritual afflictions—anxiety, depression, alienation—driving everyone’s destructive and disastrous behavior.

But such a potent machine has its pitfalls. As Dr. More soon learns, in the wrong hands, the powerful lapsometer could lead to open warfare, pushing America into anarchy at full-speed.

Review

“Immensely readable, vividly entertaining.” — Los Angeles Times

“Brilliant and hilarious . . . some of the most fascinating characters you’ll ever encounter.” — The Dallas Morning News

“One of the major novels of our time.” — Milwaukee Journal

"A great adventure...So outrageous and so real, one is left speechless." --Chicago Sun-Times

"A comedy of love against a field of anarchy...Percy is easily one of the finest writers we have." --New York Times Book Review

"Immensely readable, vividly entertaining." --Los Angeles Times

"Brilliant and hilarious...some of the most fascinating characters you'll ever encounter." --Dallas Morning News

"One of the major novels of our time." --Milwaukee Journal

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