The Second Coming
by:
Walker Percy (author)
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...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312243241 (0312243243)
ASIN: 312243243
Publish date: September 13th 1999
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 360
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Health,
Religion,
Contemporary,
Christianity,
Southern,
Mental Health,
Catholic