The Last Gentleman, (Paperback)

from smichaelwilson

This book was placed on my To Read list so long ago that I no longer remember why it was added. The Last Gentleman follows displaced southerner Williston Bibb Barrett from New York City to Alabama to New Mexico as he falls in with a southern family loosely connected to his own southern roots. Bar...

from smichaelwilson

This book was placed on my To Read list so long ago that I no longer remember why it was added. The Last Gentleman follows displaced southerner Williston Bibb Barrett from New York City to Alabama to New Mexico as he falls in with a southern family loosely connected to his own southern roots. Bar...

from smichaelwilson

This book was placed on my To Read list so long ago that I no longer remember why it was added. The Last Gentleman follows displaced southerner Williston Bibb Barrett from New York City to Alabama to New Mexico as he falls in with a southern family loosely connected to his own southern roots. Bar...

from Jeannine504

Story stops rather than ends, but what a writer. Expressions like "it was the silence of the time after". Very olfactory - writes more about how things smell than any other writer I've read.

from elenchus

Percy creates a quasi-absurd scenario reminiscent of Pynchon, Robbins, or Brautigan, and uses it to explore modern anxiety and existential crisis through the lens of an educated twenty-something Southern boy. Action follows Williston Bibb Barrett as he works his way back home, equally pushed by i...