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

Percy, Walker

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374193029 ISBN 13: 9780374193027

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1971

Synopsis

Amid the decadence and polarization of a future American society, a U.S. doctor discovers a promising cure for all the ills of the human psyche

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:

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: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0374193029
• ISBN 13: 9780374193027
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 403