description: [Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.][Read by Grover Gardner]The Auto Age is defunct. Buicks, Chryslers, and Pontiacs disfigure the landscape. Vines sprout in Manhattan. Wolves are seen in downtown Cleveland. And psychiatrist, mental hospital outpatient, and inventor Dr. Tom More has created a miraculous the Ontological Lapsometer, a kind of stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he plans to cure mankind's spiritual flu. But first, he must survive Moira, Lola, and Ellen -- and discover why so many living people are actually dead.Attempting to save the world from completely destroying itself, Tom ultimately begins to understand the quality and caprices of life and the uncontrollable vagaries of time and chance.
language: English
title: Love in the Ruins
titlecomplete: Love in the Ruins (Library Edition)
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Catholic, American, Religion, Literature, Classics, Novels, Southern, Dystopia
ratings_count: 3957
series: Love in the Ruins
awards: awardedAt: 63100800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.