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The Moviegoer: A Novel (FSG Classics)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN13:
9780374214524
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Winner of the 1962 National Book Award and one of Time magazines 100 Best English-Language Novels, Walker Percys debut The Moviegoer is an American masterpiece and a classic of Southern literature. Insightful, romantic, and humorous, it is the story of a young mans 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 Binxs 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 Percys place as a giant of American literature.
- | Author: Walker Percy
- | Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- | Publication Date: January 15, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 272 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0374214522
- | ISBN-13: 9780374214524
- Author:
- Walker Percy
- Publisher:
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication Date:
- January 15, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 272 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0374214522
- ISBN-13:
- 9780374214524