The Second Coming
#52 of 8,085 books · #30 in Fiction
Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (1980). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 4 other awards.
Will Barrett 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.
- Publisher
- New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks
- ISBN-13
- 9780671426088
- Genre
- Topics
- Depression and mental illnessGrief and lonelinessLove and second chances
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for FictionWonMajor(1980)
- National Book Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1982)
- National Book Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1981)
- PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1981)
- National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1980)
Other awarded books from Walker Percy
- The Moviegoer (2011)1 win · 12 score
- Love in the Ruins (2011)0 wins · 4 score
- The Last Gentleman (2013)0 wins · 4 score
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