by Walker Percy
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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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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Quirky, Fun Novel, 2008-11-21
I loved this novel and couldn't put it down. The quirky, and yet oddly believable characters, and their fascinating takes on both the extraordinary and mundane happenings of their own lives. It didn't hurt that the settings were Southern ones, of great familiarity in their own ways. Entertaining and yet deep and thought provoking, I know that more than the Moviegoer, The Second Coming will propel me towards reading the rest of the Percy canon. Probably because it is hopeful, not nauseatingly so, but more uplifting than depressing.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
First Rate, 2008-04-29
The all-up guttiest and most lovable heroine I've encountered in some 58 years of reading.
0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
 Meandering stretch of a story, 2007-11-29
This is the first Walker Percy book I have read. I don't believe I'll choose another unless there's compelling reason. Mr. Percy started off well with a good writing style; a little more than half-way through, I realized he was padding the book with irrelevant, fantastic vignettes. This is one of the few books I threw away rather than pass on to a friend.
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 Rewarding for a certain kind of reader, 2007-06-15
I first read this novel when I was quite young. I found the chapters about Allie fascinating, and the chapters about Will perplexing and boring, so I skimmed them. This was of course a mistake. As I re-read the novel recently, I realized how huge my mistake was. I was inspired to re-read the novel following the psychiatric hospitalization of a family member, who seemed to communicate easily with his fellow patients and less well with us. I dimly recalled reading a novel about two people who are experiencing some mental problems and connect with each other much better than with the world at large. After a long and peculiar conversation with a book store clerk, I found this book again. Now that I am in my forties, I am a more patient and careful reader, and my life experience has made me far more interested in the ruminations of Will Barrett. It is important to understand that the author is letting us experience what it feels like to be in Will's head, and it is sometimes a strange place to be, where the narrative does not flow easily, and important insights and plot points pop up unexpectedly. I loved every moment of my second reading of this book, and I expect it will become one of the books that I re-read periodically, like Middlemarch.
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Loose Ends, 2007-03-31
This is a very scattered novel with lots of needless repetitions. What was Percy on when he wrote this thing? There are so many loose ends it would take an additional book just to tie them all together. My response to this book is similar to the incessant grunts of the protagonist Will Barrett--"Huh"?, "What"?, "Who"? "Eh"? For me a poor ending and an unsatisfying read. Perhaps I should go back and read it again to see what all these five stars are about.
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