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Original Title:	The Moviegoer
ISBN:	0375701966 (ISBN13: 9780375701962)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Binx Bolling
Setting:	New Orleans, Louisiana(United States) Louisiana(United States)
Literary Awards:	National Book Award for Fiction (1962)

The Moviegoer

Walker Percy

Paperback | Pages: 242 pages

Rating: 3.68 | 23905 Users | 1918 Reviews

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Title	:	The Moviegoer
Author	:	Walker Percy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 242 pages
Published	:	April 14th 1998 by Vintage Books USA (first published 1961)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature. Novels. American. Southern

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The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback. The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he yearns for a spiritual redemption he cannot bring himself to believe in. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he occupies himself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the "treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a hare-brained quest that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, and sends him reeling through the chaos of New Orleans' French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic.

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For me, this was the quintessential tale of two halves. For the first 100 pages, I was slogging through these people's lives - bored, not liking or disliking a single character, completely uninvested. A 29-year-old existentialist, a 25-year-old manic depressive, a 32-year-old frat boy turned lawyer, a well-meaning but interfering matriarch. And then . . . boom, it all started to click. A magic wand of meaningfulness waved over the final half of the book. This was my first experience with Mr.

I don't know what I was expecting, a nostalgic trip through the golden hours of cinema history, something along the lines of Truffaut or of the more recent Oscar laureate The Artist ? I didn't even pay attention to the year of publication (1961) or the setting (New Orleans). Mostly the impulse to pick it up came from a goodreads review full of great movie posters, and I was looking for something to validate my own obsession with the silver screen magic ( I had periods when I watched 2-3 movies

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When I was a junior in high school, my favorite English teacher told us about Walker Percy. He lived across Lake Pontchartrain, she said, and she made him sound like a reclusive eccentric. He had a new book out, she told us, called Lancelot and highly recommended his Love in the Ruins. We didn't read him in class, but I heard enough about him to be intrigued and I read him on my own. Though my teacher had introduced me to him, I felt like he was my own discovery.I don't remember the first time I

This is my favorite novel of all time. It is the story of Binx Bolling, a successful, socially prominent New Orleans stockbroker from an old and wealthy family, and how he faces his life in the week of Carnival leading up to his thirtieth birthday on Ash Wednesday. Binx is an avid and successful skirtchaser, but he really loves his stepcousin Kate, a manic depressive. The book tells us that a life spent seeking happiness is almost doomed to failure, that happiness, both as a concept and as a

Terry wrote: "Great review! Its going on my TBR."I hope you will love the journey as much as I did.

Before I read 'the Moviegoer' my only real exposure to Walker Percy was reading A Confederacy of Dunces (a novel not written by Percy, but one which he discovered, published and wrote the forward to) and through his friendship with Shelby Foote. Anyway, fifty pages into 'the Moviegoer', I was ready to declare my undying love for Walker Percy. 'The Moviegoer' reminded me of a southern Catholic Graham Greene + F. Scott Fitzgerald + William Gaddis. With Greene's Catholic ambiguity and Fitzgerald's