The Last Gentleman

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The Last Gentleman

novel by Percy

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The Moviegoer (1961) and The Last Gentleman (1966) established Walker Percy as an important voice in Southern fiction. Their musing philosophical style broke sharply with the Southern gothic tradition and influenced later writers such as Richard Ford in The Sportswriter (1986) and its moving sequel, Independence Day (1995). Equally…
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The Moviegoer (1961) and The Last Gentleman (1966) established Walker Percy as an important voice in Southern fiction. Their musing philosophical style broke sharply with the Southern gothic tradition and influenced later writers such as Richard Ford in The Sportswriter (1986) and its moving sequel, Independence Day (1995). Equally…
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Walker Percy
Other fiction included The Last Gentleman (1966); Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time near the End of the World (1971), a science-fiction novel that brings a lighter comic touch to Percy’s treatment of “Malaise”; Lancelot (1977), an allegory of the King…
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Other fiction included The Last Gentleman (1966); Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time near the End of the World (1971), a science-fiction novel that brings a lighter comic touch to Percy’s treatment of “Malaise”; Lancelot (1977), an allegory of the King…
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