The Second Coming (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Walker Percy
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Philosophical realism, Novel
- Subjects: 1970’s, Love or romance, Suicide, South or Southerners, Spiritual life or spirituality, Mental illness, Christianity, North Carolina, Faith, Catholics or Catholic Church, Greenhouses, Belief or doubt
- Locales: North Carolina
Will Barrett of The Last Gentleman returns in this sequel as a wealthy middle-aged man, recently widowed, suffering both from inexplicable blackouts in which he loses consciousness and from his faltering sense of a calling in life. Also resurrected are Sutter Vaught, whom Will counseled out of suicide, and Sutter's sister Kitty, whom Will once courted. The three are brought together again in a most unusual circumstance as Will encounters Kitty's purportedly schizophrenic daughter, Allison, during a “scientific experiment” to determine whether God exists.
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