Back in print, Charles Portis's brilliant "white comedy" —an unforgettable tale of secret societies, lost cities, and sacred texts. Following last year's enthusiastically received reissue of Charles Portis's novels The Dog of the South and Norwood comes the republication of The Masters of Atlantis, the third in Overlook's reissues of the novels of this American master. This unforgettable novel centers on Lamar Jimmerson, a man in the front ranks of the modern-day Gnomon Society, the international fraternal order dedicated to preserving the arcane wisdom of the lost city of Atlantis. Stationed in France in 1917, Jimmerson comes across a little book crammed with Atlantean puzzles, Egyptian riddles, and extended alchemical metaphors, the Codex Pappus—said to be the sacred Gnomonic text. Soon he is basking in the lore of lost Atlantis, convinced that his mission on...
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