Author: Walker Percy
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed on a bookplate attached to the first blank page. Black cloth with gilt spine titles; top edge stained burnt-yellow; 8.5 inches tall; 403 pages. The bindings are tight and square. Text is clean; Minimal shelf handling wear. The dust jacket with no tears or chips has mild age-toning. . Hailed as ‘vividly entertaining’ by the Los Angeles Times and ‘profoundly moving’ by the Milwaukee Journal, Love in the Ruins is a towering, mind-bending work of satirical speculative fiction by the National Book Award–winning author of The Moviegoer. Subjects: Fiction; Literature; Classics; Novels; Science Fiction; Catholic; Southern; Religion; Dystopia
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