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The Last Gentleman
Author: Walker Percy
ISBN: 126017
Publication Date: 1966
Pages: 409
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Publisher: Noonday
Book Type: Paperback
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kathleenmarie avatar reviewed The Last Gentleman on + 91 more book reviews
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.