In The Second Coming, as in his other novels, Percy's main characters are searching for a meaningful way to live in a world in which all the "-isms" have apparently failed. People are inauthentic, incomplete, and estranged from themselves. The Second Coming: A Novel. Walker Percy (–) was one of the most prominent American writers of the twentieth century. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, he was the oldest of three brothers in an established Southern family that contained both a Civil War hero and a U.S. senator. Acclaimed for his poetic style and moving depictions of Reviews: · The Second Coming has a large cast of distinctive characters who are cleverly delineated, though not in great depth. This is partly because they are seen through the ironic consciousness of Will.
The Second Coming: A Novel . by Walker Percy. () $ A successful man's midlife crisis may just provide a twisted path to happiness in this New York Times-bestselling novel by the author of The Last Gentleman. Now in his late forties, Will Barrett lives a life other men only dream of. Walker Percy: The Second Coming. This novel takes us back to Will Barrett, he of The Last Gentleman. He has now retired from his law practice and is living in North Carolina, playing golf. However, once again, he has to confront his demons, in particular the suicide of his father. Indeed, it is while playing golf, that this demon does occur and. The Second Coming is by turns touching and zany, tragic and comic, as Will sets out in search of God's exi. 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.
The Second Coming is by turns touching and zany, tragic and comic, as Will sets out in search of God's exi 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. Percy's fifth novel is tightly bound to the theme of his other four: Why is a person nowadays two percent of himself? Why are we all so unhappy? And it's most especially and clearly linked to his second (and perhaps best) book, The Last Gentleman. Here, grown older and incomparably richer (having married a cheerful, fat, crippled heiress who died), is again Will Barrett—who's still having. Walker Percy is one of our greatest Southern writers, right up there with O'Connor and Faulkner. In The Second Coming, Percy combines existential themes with social issues of personal alienation and dissatisfaction with the "American Dream." The prose is flawless and perfectly executed; the thematic content is rich and thought-provoking.
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