The Second Coming

Name: The Second Coming
Author: Walker Percy

by Walker Percy

Novel of a man's spiritual crisis and quest for authentic faith in the modern age

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Walker Percy

Walker Percy was a Catholic Southern novelist who drew on existentialism and Christian theology to write diagnostic novels about the spiritual malaise of modern America. The Moviegoer won the National Book Award.

More by Walker Percy

The MoviegoerNovel of a young man searching for meaning through cinema and sexual encounters in New Orleans
The Last GentlemanNovel following a young man confronting modern alienation and spiritual emptiness in the South
Love in the RuinsSatirical novel of a doctor's utopian experiment collapsing amid desire and modern chaos
LancelotMonologue of a man confessing his descent from idealism into obsession and violence