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The Second Coming by Walker Percy.
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Walker Percy (1916-1990) won the National Book Award for fiction in 1961 for his first published novel, The Moviegoer. In five subsequent novels and numerous essays, he explored his chosen theme of "t...
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Walker Percy was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on 28 May 1916. He married Mary Bernice Townsend in 1946, has two daughters, and is very much the family man and private person at his home in Covington, ...
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Critical Essay by John Calvin Batchelor
[The Second Coming] is sad, sensual, self-pitying, and unresolved. It fails as a romance, fails as a character novel, fails as a confession, succeeds uncomforta...
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Critical Essay by Mary Gordon
The situation of [Walker Percy's] The Second Coming is not new: the despair of an affluent, white, middle-aged man. But the novel's tone is beautiful in a w...
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Critical Essay by Robert Towers
The Second Coming contains enough plot for three ordinary novels, sufficient themes for a dozen, and enough archetypal symbolism and mythopoeic incident to employ a bus...
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Teaching The Second Coming
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Critical Essay by John Calvin Batchelor
