it's zany, I tell you

Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins is like a slightly less bitter [insert apocalyptic Vonnegut novel]. Or if Yossarian was a 45-year-old Catholic set in one of those, instead of a 26-year-old WW2 veteran. The main character, a descendent of Thomas More and also his namesake, is living outside a swamp in Louisiana, in End Times. He's developed a brain scanner that not only figures out where the problems are but also how to fix them, but of course there's a madcap array of people and events preventing him from getting this info out. Not to mention the three women he's in love with...

Reg has another of his books he wants me to read too, I think. In the meantime I've started on The Descent of Woman, an evolution story taking the female into account.