Lancelot: A Novel

by Walker Percy

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312243074
Publisher:	Picador
Publication date:	09/04/1999
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	395,400
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Walker Percy wrote several books, many of them bestsellers, and is considered one of the greatest American writers of our time. His books include The Moviegoer and Love in the Ruins.

Editorial Reviews

A funny and scarifying jeremiad . . . Easy to read and hard to forget.” —Time

“Eloquent, reckless, hilarious . . . plunges forward through tawdry bedroom mysteries toward a final grand puzzle.” —Washington Post Book World

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