Lancelot
by:
Walker Percy (author)
Lancelot Lamar is a disenchanted lawyer who finds himself confined in a mental asylum with memories that don't seem worth remembering. It all began the day he accidentally discovered he was not the father of his youngest daughter, a discovery which sent Lancelot on modern quest to reverse the...
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Lancelot Lamar is a disenchanted lawyer who finds himself confined in a mental asylum with memories that don't seem worth remembering. It all began the day he accidentally discovered he was not the father of his youngest daughter, a discovery which sent Lancelot on modern quest to reverse the degeneration of America. Percy's novel reveals a shining knight for the modern age--a knight not of romance, but of revenge.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312243074 (0312243073)
Publish date: September 4th 1999
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 257
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Christianity,
Southern,
Modern Classics,
Catholic,
Gothic,
Southern Gothic
My first Percy novel and I don't understand the draw. Not insightful or thoughtful, either in answers or in questions, and the dialogue was anticlimactically dull. Vulgar for the sake of vulgarity. What have I missed in reading this? I'm surprised I finished it. Not impressed in the least.
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