Love in the Ruins (Paladin Books) - Softcover

Percy, Walker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0586087753 ISBN 13: 9780586087756

Publisher: Paladin, 1989

Synopsis

In this stunning satire. Walker Percy describes what happens to Tom More, a widowed psychiatrist and bad Catholic who lives in Paradise, a small town in the southern US, at a time near the end of the world. Tom loves women best, music and science next, then whisky, God fourth and his fellow man hardly at all. Love in the Ruins is full of absurd but recognizable people and is a marvellously funny novel of great gusto and insight.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"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

From the Inside Flap:

Dr. Tom More 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Paladin
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0586087753
• ISBN 13: 9780586087756
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384