Lancelot
Books | Fiction / Literary
3.8
Walker Percy
DIVDIV“A modern knight-errant on a quest after evil; grotesque, convincing and chilling.” —The New York Times Book Review/divDIV/divDIVFed up with the excesses of the 1970s, Lancelot Andrews Lamar, a liberal lawyer and distinguished member of the New Orleans gentry, is determined to stop the modern world’s ethical collapse. His quest begins with his wife—an actress who he suspects has been cheating on him for years. Though he initially plans only to gather proof of her infidelity, Lancelot quickly descends into a fog of obsession. And as he crosses the line from sanity into madness, he will try once and for all to purify the world or destroy it in the attempt./divDIV /divDIVMesmerizing and unforgettable, Lancelot is a masterful story of one man’s collision with the follies of modern culture, and a thought-provoking look at the nature of good and evil./div/div
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Author
Walker Percy
Pages
241
Publisher
Open Road Media
Published Date
2011-03-29
ISBN
1453216170 9781453216170
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"Lancelot has quietly spent a year in an asylum after some death and destruction of his causing. A visiting friend from his past causes Lance to retell the story for the first time while also explaining his thoughts on the moral downfall of society and the one hope for the future.<br/><br/>He lives in a historic Civil War era mansion near New Orleans. His room is a converted pigionnier, the cypress floorboards polished my centuries of guano. His family and home has been usurped by a movie crew that becomes a symbol for the moral depravity of modern society. Cuckolded and stripped of his status as the biological father of his youngest daugher, Lancelot becomes an agent of revenge and renaissance."
Andrew Greene