The last gentleman
By: Walker Percy.
Edition: Modern Library ed.
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
Subjects: Friendship -- Fiction; Young men -- Fiction; Children -- Death -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
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, and the meaning of contemporary life.