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Love in the Ruins
The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time near the End of the WorldBy Walker PercyNarrated by Grover GardnerLength11h 29m
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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.
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Rating★★★★ 4.0 (7.2K)
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length11 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byGrover Gardner
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJul 20, 2012
LanguageEnglish
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