| The Last Gentleman Contributor(s): Percy, Walker (Author), Kandinsky, Wolfram (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1504756703 ISBN-13: 9781504756709 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $35.96 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: January 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Williston Bibb Barrett is a rather unusual and inquisitive young Southerner with a special gift for cultivating the possibilities of life. He suffers from occasional bouts of amnesia and disconcerting attacks of deja vu. He clings to certain old-fashioned notions of behavior, and yet he finds himself constantly impelled to eavesdrop on other people's conversations. And he lives with the secret suspicion that the great world catastrophe that everyone fears will happen has already happened. The novel follows Will Barrett's adventures as he becomes involved in the complex troubles, loves, and fortunes of a Southern family, the Vaughts, that is living in the shadow of their youngest son's illness. With settings ranging from New York to Alabama, Louisiana to New Mexico, this is an ambitious, funny, compulsively readable novel about the dilemmas of modern man. |
Contributor Bio(s): Percy, Walker: - Walker Percy (1916-1990) went to medical school and interned at Bellevue, intending to be a psychiatrist. After a bout with tuberculosis, he married and converted to Catholicism. He became a writer and his first novel, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award and has never been out of print. He lived with his wife in Covington, Louisiana, where they operated a bookstore until his death. Kandinsky, Wolfram: -Wolfram Kandinsky (1940-1993) was a popular audiobook narrator whose career spanned the earliest days of commercial audiobooks. He was a familiar voice of the classics for millions of audiobook fans, and his resume encorporated the greats of American literature, from Mark Twain to Saul Bellow. |