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The Last Gentleman: A Novel
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Book Description
Williston Bibb Barrett, the last gentleman of the story, is a displaced Southerner who has dropped out of Princeton owing to a nervous condition that his psychoanalyst associates with an inability to fit into groups. While living in New York City, our wayfarer-hero falls in love with a young woman he spies through a telescope...and sets out on a cross-country odyssey in search of home, identity, a... More
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PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
BindingHardcover (36 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages409
ISBN-100374183724
ISBN-13978-0374183721
Publication Date01/01/1966
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About Walker Percy (Author) : Walker Percy is a published author. Some of the published credits of Walker Percy include A Confederacy of Dunces, The Last Gentleman : A Novel.
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