Walker Percy

Widower Will Barrett of Linwood, North Carolina, and Allison Vaught--two alienated souls both questioning their faith in God--together heal one another and return to a Christian community that rejects their methods of healing

A Novel

The Second Coming

Percy is my favorite twentieth-century novelist. This book started a bit slow and confusing, but it repays the effort in the end. A reflection on memory, language, religion, love, suicide, the South and the only things that can save us from "the living death": "her and Him."

Luke Stamps

Donald

Not as good as the Last Gentleman, to which it is a sequel, but I guess it did single-handedly fulfill my quota this year for racial slurs and sex scenes in fiction.

The Second Coming A Novel

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