The Second Coming
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0374256748 / Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, July 1980
Widower Will Barrett of Linwood, North Carolina, finds his way out of death-in-life with the help of Allison, the girl in the greenhouse
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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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