Thus has begun the school reading. Below are the first two sentences of the four-page response I have written to The Second Coming. They are really all you really need to know about my opinion.
A late-middle-aged, retired and depressed golfing lawyer falls inexplicably in love with a young woman who has escaped from a mental institution and is living in a greenhouse. Set in the South and concerned, as the plot would suggest, with the incongruities of life, Walker Percy’s The Second Coming performs varied and skillful technical feats while managing to be a book that I would prefer not to read again.
4.0 / 10.0.
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