Review
"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



Review
"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



Book Description
Lancelot Lamar is a disenchanted lawyer who finds himself confined in a mental asylum with memories that don't seem worth remembering. It all began the day he accidentally discovered he was not the father of his youngest daughter, a discovery which sent Lancelot on modern quest to reverse the degeneration of America. Percy's novel reveals a shining knight for the modern age--a knight not of romance, but of revenge.



From the Publisher
"A modern knight-errant on a quest after evil.... Convincing and chilling." -The New York Times Book Review "Eloquent, reckless, accurate, hilarious...plunges forward through tawdry bedroom mysteries toward a final grand puzzle." -Washington Post Book World "A fine novel...Percy is a seductive writer attentive to sensuous detail, and such a skillful architect of fiction that the very discursiveness of his story informs it with energy and tension." -Newsweek "A funny and scarifying jeremiad on the modern age. Lancelot is easy to read and hard to forget." -Time

ANNOTATION

Is Lancelot Andrewes Lamar the next Don Quixote? The disenchanted lawyer tells his dark story of violence from the "nuthouse"--a story of his obsession to reverse the degeneration of modern America and begin a new age of chivalry and romance.

FROM THE PUBLISHER