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1981 PEN/Faulkner Award (nominee)
1980 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
1980 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee)
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.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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