Walker Percy
Paperback | Pages: 360 pages Rating: 3.96 | 2065 Users | 161 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Second Coming |
| ISBN: | 0312243243 (ISBN13: 9780312243241) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1981), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (1980), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1980), Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Literature (1981), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (Hardcover) (1981) & (Paperback) (1982) Alabama Author Award for Fiction (1981) |
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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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| Title | : | The Second Coming |
| Author | : | Walker Percy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 360 pages |
| Published | : | September 13th 1999 by Picador USA (first published 1980) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literature. Literary Fiction. American. Southern. Novels |
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Ratings: 3.96 From 2065 Users | 161 ReviewsAssessment Of Books The Second Coming
Not sure what to make of the book. I wondered if the need to believe was at the center of the work. One must be mentally ill to believe therefore one chooses mental illness over sanity. Will Barret was a successful lawyer, lived a full life, retired early. But he is not all there. His seizures attached to his father's suicide and his attempt to overcome what is his birthmark. He accepts the possible illusion of a second coming at the end of the novel. I kept feeling that this was a sort New AgeExcellent. May be the best novel I've read this year (in which I've read many excellent novels).
Was led to The Second Coming by The Moviegoer. I just loved this book. Better than Percy's first.Again drawn to the mountain setting outside Asheville, NC where my family lived after leaving NY.Will Barrett is a widower whose wife was rich and did good deeds. He went north as a lawyer and made alot of money, too. With daughter Leslie in tow, he and his wife set up a life in the mountains. Riddled with the knowledge that his father committed suicide and tried to take Will with him, Will tries to
Read a few years back, one of the more unique novelist devices I've seen, and the usual superb psychological development from Percy. Entertaining and lively as well!
I just loved this book, even more than the original Will Barrett book. Percy is certainly underrated in my book. As the book begins we are following two characters , the aforementioned Will who is a wealthy, not wealthy, filthy rich widower with apparent fits of memory lapse, failing motor skills, and obsessions with past memory.We are also following Allison, a young woman ( her age is never given but early twenties seems right ) who has escaped from a local mental institution. Alison ends up
My first buddy-read with our beloved Kirk... the first blossom of an incredible friendship with an extraordinary soul. Rest well, darling boy. We carry Janice and the boys in our hearts and love you still.-------------Knowing a little bit about the actual life and history of the author made this book extremely interesting. The two primary characters each have a psychiatric condition that makes their interactions with those around them dissatisfying and odd. As yin to yang, though, Will and Allie
There is something almost ineffable that hits me when I read Walker Percy. I think it is the grace of Percy's confrontation and struggle with spiritual belief. His characters are amazing, his prose is lovely. He writes these quirky scenes, in a sometimes peculiar prose without them seeming fussy or overwrought (an amazing balancing act right there). Perhaps, I am just drawn to my big Trinity of Catholic Novelists(Greene, O'Connor, Percy). They don't play in an easy playground of consecration.
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