The Second Coming, Walker Percy
The Second Coming, Walker Percy
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The Second Coming

Author: Walker Percy

Narrator: David Hilder

Unabridged: 12 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/14/2014

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

Will Barrett of Linwood, North Carolina, is a depressed widower with a peculiar tendency to fall down in strange places. Allison, the girl in the greenhouse, has just escaped from a mental institution and is working hard to make a new life for herself. When their paths cross in a most unusual manner, a relationship begins that will help restore two struggling outcasts to new life. What follows is by turns touching and zany, tragic and comic, as Will undertakes his own Pascalian wager in search of proof of the existence of God. Leaving his comfortable home atop a pleasant Carolina mountain and descending deep into the bowels of the long-unused Lost Cove cave, he is prepared to wait for a signwhich may, of course, be death. What he is not prepared for is what actually happens.

About Walker Percy

Walker Percy (1916–1990) was the author of nine books of fiction and nonfiction, including the award-winning The Moviegoer and the New York Times bestsellers The Thanatos Syndrome, Love in the Ruins, and The Second Coming . He is considered one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. He went to medical school, intending to be a psychiatrist, until he had a bout with tuberculosis. He married and converted to Catholicism. He became a writer, and his first novel, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award and has never been out of print.


Reviews

My first buddy-read with our beloved Kirk... the first blossom of an incredible friendship with an extraordinary soul. Rest well, darling boy. We carry Janice and the boys in our hearts and love you still. ------------- Knowing a little bit about the actual life and history of the author made this boo......more