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The Second Coming

(1980)
(The second book in the Will Barrett series)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book (nominee)
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.



Genre: Literary Fiction

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