Why did I love this book?
I read this book every year. In my opinion, Walker Percy, along with Flannery OāConnor, is the premiere southern novelist of the last half of the 20th Century. I consider it one of the finest novels written and an example of the plotting, character development, use of language, and religious parody to which young novelists should aspire.
Percyās novel blends Southern Gothic, science fiction, and comedy to create a world in which the racial divide in New Orleans blossoms into an apocalypse with hilarious and unpredictable results.
4 authors picked Love in the Ruins as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
A pair of profound dystopian novels from the ābrilliantly breathtakingā New York Timesābestselling and National Book Awardāwinning author of The Moviegoer (The New York Times Book Review).
Winner of the National Book Award for The Moviegoer, the ādazzlingly giftedā Southern philosophical author Walker Percy wrote two vividly imagined satirical novels of Americaās future featuring deeply flawed psychiatrist and spiritual seeker Tom More (USA Today). Love in the Ruins is āa great adventure . . . so outrageous and so real, one is left speechlessā (Chicago Sun-Times), and its sequel The Thanatos Syndrome āshimmers with intelligence and verveā (Newsday).
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