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The Thanatos Syndrome
First edition cover
AuthorWalker Percy
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller novel
PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux (HB) & Palandin (PB)
Publication date
1 April 1987
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages372 pp (hardback edition) & 384 pp (paperback edition)
ISBN0-374-27354-5 (hardback edition) & ISBN 0-586-08726-5 (paperback edition)
OCLC14718928
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 19
LC ClassPS3566.E6912 T46 1987
Preceded byLove in the Ruins 

The Thanatos Syndrome (1987) was Walker Percy's last novel. It is a sequel to Love in the Ruins. Set in the near future in Feliciana, it tells the story of an imprisoned psychiatrist who is freed and returns to his town with the active members demonstrating new mysterious behaviors. He suspects that something or someone is making everyone in his town crazy and reversing them to be like primitive apes.

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