Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Love in the Ruins

Idiosyncratic and beautifully written, this Walker Percy novel from 1971 imagines a near future in which vine tendrils herald the decline of civilization, people have lost the ability to repair what is broken, and one man hopes that love can conquer all. It is a disorienting tale full of weird characters with a beating heart at the center.

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