The Second Coming: A Novel
<p>Will Barrett (also the hero of Percy's <i>The Last Gentleman</i>) is a lonely widower suffering from a depression so 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 in a greenhouse. <i>The Second Coming</i> is by turns touching and zany, tragic and comic, as Will sets out in search of God's existence and winds up finding much more.</p>