The Second Coming
WALKER PERCY

The Second Coming by Walker Percy 30 reviews (1980) (368p) National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Finalist National Book Award Finalist PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist LA Times Book Prize for Fiction

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Book Description

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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The Moviegoer by Walker Percy 112 reviews (1961) (256p) (NBA) (Modern100) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Walker Percy Award Stats

Major Prize* Nominations 4   Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* 2   Pulitzer Prize Wins 0   Pulitzer Prize Nominations 0   National Book Critics Circle Award Wins 0   National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations 1 The Second Coming ·   National Book Award Wins 1 The Moviegoer ·   National Book Award Nominations 2 The Second Coming · The Moviegoer ·   Man Booker Prize Wins 0   Man Booker Prize Nominations 0   PEN/Faulkner Award Wins 0   PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations 1 The Second Coming ·

*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award

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