Description: Lancelot Lamar is a disenchanted lawyer who finds himself confined to a mental asylum with memories that don't seem worth remembering. It all begins the day he accidentally discovers that he is not the father of his youngest daughter.
Brief description: Walker Percy wrote several books, many of them bestsellers, and is considered one of the greatest American writers of our time. His books include The Moviegoer and Love in the Ruins.
Review Quotes:
"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