The Second Coming
A Novel
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ISBN10: 0312243243
ISBN13: 9780312243241
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368 Pages
$22.00
CA$30.00
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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Praise for The Second Coming
"What a pleasure . . . [Percy's] best nook since The Moviegoer . . . and among the most admirable American novels of the past few years."—The New Republic
"Percy has a rare talent for making his people look and sound as though they were being seen and heard for the first time by anyone."—Time
"[Percy] is a beguiling, uniquely gifted novelist who deserves to be read in order and in full."—Newsweek
