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Lancelot

A Novel

Author: Walker Percy

Lancelot

Lancelot

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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...

Page Count
272
On Sale
09/04/1999

Book Details

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.

Imprint Publisher

Picador

ISBN

9780312243074

In The News

“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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Lancelot

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