Bibliograph

Love in the ruins, the adventures of a bad Catholic at a time near the end of the world, Walker Percy

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Love in the ruins, the adventures of a bad Catholic at a time near the end of the world, Walker Percy

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Love in the ruins

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Walker Percy

Sub title

the adventures of a bad Catholic at a time near the end of the world

Summary

In Walker Percy's future America, the country is on the brink of disaster. With citizens violently polarized along racial, political, and social lines, and a fifteen-year war still raging abroad, America is crumbling quickly into ruin. The country's one remaining hope is Dr. Thomas More, whose "lapsometer" is capable of diagnosing the spiritual afflictions-anxiety, depression, alienation-driving everyone's destructive and disastrous behavior. But such a potent machine has its pitfalls. As Dr. More soon learns, in the wrong hands, the powerful lapsometer could lead to open warfare, pushing America into anarchy at full-speed

Target audience

adult

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