A pair of profound dystopian novels from the ';brilliantly breathtaking' New York Timesbestselling and National Book Awardwinning author of The Moviegoer (The New York Times Book Review). Winner of the National Book Award for The Moviegoer, the ';dazzlingly gifted' Southern philosophical author Walker Percy wrote two vividly imagined satirical novels of America's future featuring deeply flawed psychiatrist and spiritual seeker Tom More (USA Today). Love in the Ruins is ';a great adventure... so outrageous and so real, one is left speechless' (Chicago Sun-Times), and its sequel The Thanatos Syndrome ';shimmers with intelligence and verve' (Newsday). Love in the Ruins: The great experiment of the American dream has failed. The United States is on the brink of catastrophe. Can an alcoholic, womanizing, lapsed-Catholic psychiatrist really save a society speeding toward inevitable collapse? Dr....
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