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The Last Gentleman
The Last Gentleman
Author: Walker Percy
Beginning in central park where a young man peers through his telescope at a beautiful young woman and falls in love at first sight, and ending thousands of miles and many extravagant adventures later in a blinding moment of truth in Santa Fe, The Last Gentleman is the comic and romantic odyssey of a Princeton drop-out, a ballet dancer, and a do...  more »
ISBN: 482152
Publication Date: 8/1978
Pages: 319
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Publisher: Avon printing
Book Type: Paperback
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Comical, heartbreaking, full of irony. The novel follows the adventures of Princeton dropout/exiled Southerner, Williston Bibb Barrett, on a whimsical, deeply moving journey through America. A romantic who falls madely in love with a women he first views through a telescope. Will is the last "gentleman", an unforgettable fictional character, a modern hero on a quest for home, identity and the meaning of life.


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