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"A curious, tender book, provocatively and intelligently imagined." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Binx Bolling is s small-time stockbroker who lives quietly in suburban New Orleans, pursuing an interest in the movies, affairs with his secretaries, and living out his days. But soon he finds himself on a "search" for something more important, something that will measure and mark and hold his life forever against the passage of time. And one fateful Mardi Gras week, he finds it in a way, and with a woman, he would never have expected.... "A brilliant novel...Percy touches the rim of so many human mysteries." HARPER'S From the author of THE THANATOS SYNDROME.
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The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
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- Released
- 1988
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- Title
- The Moviegoer
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Walker Percy
- Publisher
- Ivy Books
- Released
- 1988
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 212
- ISBN10
- 0804102902
- ISBN13
- 9780804102902
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Classics, USA, American Literature, Post-War Era, American South, Debut, Existentialism, New Orleans
- First published
- 1961
- Original title
- The Moviegoer
- Rating
- 3.65 out of 5
- Description
- "A curious, tender book, provocatively and intelligently imagined." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Binx Bolling is s small-time stockbroker who lives quietly in suburban New Orleans, pursuing an interest in the movies, affairs with his secretaries, and living out his days. But soon he finds himself on a "search" for something more important, something that will measure and mark and hold his life forever against the passage of time. And one fateful Mardi Gras week, he finds it in a way, and with a woman, he would never have expected.... "A brilliant novel...Percy touches the rim of so many human mysteries." HARPER'S From the author of THE THANATOS SYNDROME.