Last Gentleman

Description:

Williston Bibb Barrett, the last gentleman of the story, is a displaced Southerner who has dropped out of Princeton owing to a nervous condition that his psychoanalyst associates with an inability to fit into groups. While living in New York City, our wayfarer-hero falls in love with a young woman he spies through a telescope...and sets out on a cross-country odyssey in search of home, identity, and the meaning of contemporary life.

subjects: Death,  Fiction in English,  Fiction,  Young men,  Friendship,  Children,  Love stories,  Engineers,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  New york (n.y.), fiction,  Friendship, fiction,  Fiction, general,  City and town life

Places: New York (N.Y.)