The Second Coming (1980)

by Walker Percy

Series: Will Barrett (2)

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Will Barrett has it all, except a woman. Then, he meets Allison and the world changes.

gmicksmith | Dec 8, 2008 |

This is one of my favorite books of all time... It has many good elements... God, Death, Love, father-son and mother-daughter relationships, and mental illness... (

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Will Barrett (2)

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The Second Coming

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1980

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Will Barrett

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Los Angeles Times Book Prize (1980.03|Fiction, 1980)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (Fiction, 1980)

PEN/Faulkner Award finalist (1981)

National Book Award finalist (Fiction (Hardcover), 1981)

National Book Award finalist (Fiction (Paperback), 1982)

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The first sign that something had gone wrong manifested itself while he was playing golf.

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"They going to keep chopping on me till I'll fit on a skateboard," said Mr. Ryan, watching him.

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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.

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