Love in the Ruins - Softcover
Dr. Tom More has created a stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he embarks on an unforgettable odyssey to cure mankind's spiritual flu. This novel confronts both the value of life and its susceptibility to chance and ruin.
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"A comedy of love against a field of anarchy...Percy is easily one of the finest writers we have." --New York Times Book Review
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has created a miraculous instrument -- the Ontological Lapsometer, a kind of stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he plans to cure mankind's spiritual flu. Though scorned by the experts, Tom embarks on an outrageous odyssey to prove himself. Attempting to save the world from destruction, Tom ultimately begins to understand what he can never really know -- the quality and caprices of life and the uncontrollable vagaries of time and chance.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0312243111
- ISBN 13 9780312243111
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages416
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