num_pages: 360
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Second Coming
titlecomplete: The Second Coming
genres: American, Religion, Southern, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Catholic, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2331
series: The Last Gentleman
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award
category: Literature, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction (Hardcover) (1981) & (Paperback), awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Alabama Author Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Picador