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The Second Coming by Walker Percy | |
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| Name: |
Walker Percy | | Birth Date: |
May 28, 1916 | | Death Date: |
May 10, 1990 | | Place of Birth: |
Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America | | Place of Death: |
Covington, Louisiana, United States of America | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
novelist |
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 Biography of Walker Percy
3166 words, approx. 10.6 pages
 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, Louisiana. He claims to read little fiction and to ass... summary from source:
 Biography of Walker Percy
1650 words, approx. 5.5 pages
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 "the dislocation of man in the modern age." His work com...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Second Coming Information
43 words, approx. 1 pages
 The Second Coming is a novel by Walker Percy. It is a sequel to The Last Gentleman. It tells the story of middle-aged Will Barrett and his relationship with Allison, a young woman who has escaped from a mental...
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 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Robert Towers
576 words, approx. 2 pages
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 busy Jungian researcher for a decade. Though the characters, especially the minor ones, are shrewdly observed and portrayed, they give the impression of having been created less for their own sake—or the story's sake—than for the beliefs, attitudes, and, above all, the follies which they represent. Through them and through W... summary from source:
Critical Essay by John Calvin Batchelor
560 words, approx. 2 pages
[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 uncomfortably well as a stoical groan. One winces, and turns away, and then, because its irony dilutes the horror, reads on…. The plot of The Second Coming careens between Allison's endearing, doggerel madness … and Will's grim, crazed, suicidal gambit for a proof of God. One suspects Percy reined in his characters whenever their li... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Mary Gordon
209 words, approx. 1 pages
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 way that little writing is now—sad and questioning, ironic, weary, and, finally, triumphant. Sadness and emptiness are difficult tones to achieve in fiction, and sometimes Percy bogs down in detail. But the reward of his effort (and the reader's, for it is a difficult book) is a genuine sweetness—mordant, touching, fragi...
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The Second Coming by Walker Percy | |
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About 86 pages (25,817 words) in 7 products |
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