The last gentleman

Walker Percy

earliest edition we have, 1966 Ivy Books, 1993 paperback 323 pages

Williston Bibb Barrett, the last gentleman of the story, is a displaced Southerner who has dropped out of Princeton owing to a nervous condition that his psychoanalyst associates with an inability to fit into groups. While living in New York City, our wayfarer-hero falls in love with a young woman he spies through a telescope...and sets out on a cross-country odyssey in search of home, identity, and the meaning of co...

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The last gentleman edition · 1999 · Picador USA · 409 pages
The last gentleman edition · 1997 · Modern Library · 442 pages
The last gentleman paperback · 1993 · Ivy Books · 323 pages · 9780804103794
The Last Gentleman paperback · 1989 · Ivy Books · 9780685525029
last gentleman edition · 1985 · Panther · 352 pages
The Last Gentleman edition · 1978 · Avon Books · 9780380377961
The last gentleman edition · 1978 · Secker and Warburg · 409 pages
The Last Gentleman hardcover · 1966 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 409 pages · 9780374183721
The last gentleman edition · 1966 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 409 pages

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