The Second Coming Author:Walker Percy "Walker Percy, a natural writer, has a rare talent for making his people look and sound as though they were being seen and heard for the first time by anyone." This statement by TIME about his first book, The Moviegoer, applies with equal force to The Second Coming. Few writers treating themes of clinical depression, alienation, and delusion us... more »e humor and zaniness as effectively as he. Allison is surely one of his -- and perhaps any writer's -- finest creations.« less