The Second Coming
Walker Percy
360 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0312243243
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Language: English
Publish: 937206000000
20th CenturyAmericanClassicsContemporaryFictionLiterary FictionLiteratureNovelsReligionSouthern
Will Barrett (also the hero of Percy’s The Last Gentleman) is a lonely widower suffering from a depression so severe that he decides he doesn’t want to continue living. But then he meets Allison, a mental hospital escapee making a new life for herself in a greenhouse. The Second Coming is by turns touching and zany, tragic and comic, as Will sets out in search of God’s existence and winds up finding much more.