THE SECOND COMING [Signed and Inscribed]

Percy, Walker

ISBN 10: 0374256748 / ISBN 13: 9780374256746

Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1980

About this Item

Octavo, 360 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine gold with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$12.95." Mild tearing along edges of dust jacket, primarily at head and tail of spine. Mild scuffing to dust jacket. Minor general shelf wear to boards. Spine slightly cocked. Light wear to bottom edge of textblock. Inscribed by Percy on front free endpaper. Signed flat by Percy on title page. Shelved in Hardcover Fiction. 1400367. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Seller Inventory # 1400367

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE SECOND COMING [Signed and Inscribed]
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374256748
• ISBN 13: 9780374256746
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Early Trade Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Dupont Circle

About this title

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 sign -- which may, of course, be death. What he is not prepared for is what actually happens.

From the Inside Flap

Will Barrett, a lonely widower, suffers from a depression so strange and severe that he decides he doesn't want to continue living. But then he meets Allison, a mental hospital escapee making a new life for herself, living alone in a greenhouse. What follows is by turns touching and zany, tragic and comic, as Will goes in search of proof of God and winds up finding much more.