Author:
Walker Percy
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The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time near the End of the World
Narrator
Grover Gardner
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Length
11 hours 29 minutes
Language
English
The auto age is defunct. Buicks, Chryslers, and Pontiacs disfigure the landscape. Vines sprout in Manhattan. Wolves are seen in downtown Cleveland. And psychiatrist, mental hospital outpatient, and inventor Dr. Tom More has created a miraculous instrument: the ontological lapsometer, a kind of stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he plans to cure mankind's spiritual flu. But first he must survive Moira, Lola, and Ellen—and discover why so many living people are actually dead.
Attempting to save the world from completely destroying itself, Tom ultimately begins to understand the quality and caprices of life and the uncontrollable vagaries of time and chance.
Walker Percy (1916–1990) was the author of nine books of fiction and nonfiction, including the award-winning The Moviegoer and the New York Times bestsellers The Thanatos Syndrome, Love in the Ruins, and The Second Coming . He is considered one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. He went to medical school, intending to be a psychiatrist, until he had a bout with tuberculosis. He married and converted to Catholicism. He became a writer, and his first novel, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award and has never been out of print.
Read by Grover Gardner, Simon Vance, Derek Perkins, Julie McKay, James Langton, Marisa Calin, Ralph Lister, Suzanne Elise Freeman, James Patrick Cronin, Andrew Eiden, Scott Brick, Emily Sutton-Smith, Keith Szarabajka, and Justine Eyre
Audiobook details
Narrator:
Grover Gardner
ISBN:
9781504656931
Length:
11 hours 29 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing
Publication date:
July 20, 2012
Edition:
Unabridged
Reviews
“A comedy of love against a field of anarchy…Percy is easily one of the finest writers we have.”
“A great adventure…So outrageous and so real, one is left speechless.”
“Immensely readable, vividly entertaining.”
“Profoundly moving…One of the major novels of our time.”
“Brilliant and hilarious…Some of the most fascinating characters you’ll ever encounter.”
“[Gardner] is a smooth narrator who handles dialect in context to the novel’s tone, giving just the right amount of emphasis. Production quality is excellent.”
“[Grover Gardner] is the perfect vehicle for both the bemused Dr. More and the satirical author himself. Hats off to Blackstone Audio for finding the perfect reader to match Percy’s timeless satire.”
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