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Unlike Barrett, a sententious rehash of every Walker Percy hero of the past (in fact, a direct borrowing from The Last Gentleman), Allison is a new creation, and she provides what little direction there is to The Second Coming's rambling. But too often Percy seems to be writing out of habit, letting the alienation and existential ideology flow lazily down the same channels cut by his earlier novels. Some of his metaphors are meaningless, form without substance...
...gentleman who stooped to kiss the hand of Phyllis George Brown got a swift kick from behind and a lesson in Georgian etiquette. "You shouldn't kiss a married lady. She's married to the Governor of Kentucky," scolded Miss Lillian Carter. Thereafter, the President's mother stood close by fair Phyllis at a party hosted by the Browns aboard Publisher Malcolm Forbes' yacht. "I felt like my mother was there," giggled Phyllis. Among the weighty matters the two discussed were food and dieting. "We're shrimping it," said Phyllis, as she daintily split...
...hook. Miller also fails to reflect strongly enough the extent of the damage caused by Johnson's Viet Nam policy. Eulogistic gloss tends to soften some of the harder truths. Perhaps this is the nature of oral biography. At one point the author notes that "memory is a gentleman." True. But when memory serves legend more than history, it becomes a gentleman's gentleman. -By R.Z. Sheppard
Epps explains that he only made the call as part of a "gentleman's agreement" he had struck with the DA's office in hopes of preventing the arrest of Harvard students. And within minutes of Stork and Hagen's arrival at the police station, Epps was there to help bail them...
...hero of The Second Coming, Percy's fifth novel, is emphatically both. Will Barrett is a middle-aged version of the younger character who starred in The Last Gentleman. He has inherited a fortune ("About 50 or 60 million," he guesses) from his late wife Marion. Retired early from his Wall Street law practice, he lives on his 10,000 mountainous acres in North Carolina, dabbles in his wife's philanthropies and plays a lot of golf. On the links, he has lately developed a nasty slice and the habit of blacking out and falling down. The problem...