Love in the ruins: the adventures of a bad Catholic at a time near the end of the world
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A "brilliant and hilarious" novel of the end times in America and one psychiatrist's quest to save mankind, from a New York Times –bestselling author ( Dallas Morning News ). The United States seems to be on the brink of catastrophe. From the abandoned cars littering the highways (no one remembers how to fix them) to the endless hours spent on the golf course (now open twenty-four hours for those who can't bother to wait until daylight to putt) to the starkly polarized political and religious factions dividing the country (which are increasingly difficult to tell apart), it is startlingly evident that the great experiment of the American Dream has failed. The only problem is that no one has noticed. No one, that is, except Dr. Thomas More. Dr. More, an alcoholic, womanizing, lapsed-Catholic psychiatrist, has invented the lapsometer: a machine capable of diagnosing and curing the spiritual afflictions that are speeding society toward its inevitable collapse. If used correctly, the lapsometer could make anxiety, depression, alienation, and racism things of the past. But, in the wrong hands, it could propel the nation even more quickly into chaos. 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 .
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Love in the ruins; the adventures of a bad Catholic at a time near the end of the world Percy, Walker, 1916-1990.
Love in the ruins [electronic resource] : The adventures of a bad catholic at a time near the end of the world. Walker Percy
Love in the ruins; the adventures of a bad Catholic at a time near the end of the world Percy, Walker, 1916-1990.
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