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Winner of the 1962 National Book Award and one of Time magazineâs 100 Best English-Language Novels, Walker Percyâs debut The Moviegoer is an American masterpiece and a classic of Southern literature. Insightful, romantic, and humorous, it is the story of a young manâs search for meaning amid a shallow consumerist landscape.
Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker, fills his days with movies and casual sex. His life offers him nothing worth retaining; what he treasures are scenes from The Third Man or Stagecoach, not the personal experiences he knows other people hold dear. On the cusp of turning thirty, however, something changes: At Mardi Gras, he embarks on a quest for some form of authentic experience. The consequences of Binxâs quest, on both himself and his unstable cousin Kate, prove outrageous, absurd, moving, and indelible.
Featuring a new afterword by Richard Ford, this new edition of The Moviegoer cements Walker Percyâs place as a giant of American literature.
About: Kate's desperate struggles to maintain her sanity force Binx to relinquish his dreamworld
About: The portrait of a New Orleans stockbroker, Binx Bolling, turning 30 and caught between ennui and a need for redemption through women, family or personal revelation, 'The Moviegoer' won the National Book Award in the USA on its first publication in 1961.
About: The portrait of a New Orleans stockbroker, Binx Bolling, turning 30 and caught between ennui and a need for redemption through women, family or personal revelation, 'The Moviegoer' won the National Book Award in the USA on its first publication in 1961.
About: Kate's desperate struggle to maintain her sanity forces her cousin Binx to relinquish his dreamworld
About: "A curious, tender book, provocatively and intelligently imagined.
About: Kate's desperate struggle to maintain her sanity forces Binx to relinquish his dreamworld
This edition also contains Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky
About: Winner of the 1962 National Book Award and one of Time magazineâs 100 Best English-Language Novels, Walker Percyâs debut The Moviegoer is an American masterpiece and a classic of Southern literature.
This edition also contains The Moviegoer
About: Winner of the 1962 National Book Award and one of Time magazineâs 100 Best English-Language Novels, Walker Percyâs debut The Moviegoer is an American masterpiece and a classic of Southern literature.
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