Love in the Ruins
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published: October 1973
ISBN-13: 9780374510657
First sentence: NOW IN THESE DREAD LATTER DAYS of the old violent beloved U.S.A. and of the Christ-forgetting Christ-haunted death-dealing Western world I came to myself in a grove of young pines and the question came to me: has it happened at last?