Title

The Moviegoer

Creator

Walker Percy

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Creation Date

5-1-1998

Description

A Novel by Walker Percy Vintage (Paperback, $12.00, ISBN: 0375701966, 5/1998) A winner of the National Book Award, this tale of a small-time stockbroker in search of something more―a "certified reality" that eludes him everywhere except at the movies―established Percy as an insightful and grimly humorous storyteller. This elegantly written account of a young man's search for signs of purpose in the universe is one of the great existential texts of the postwar era and is really funny besides. Binx Bolling, inveterate cinemaphile, contemplative rake and man of the periphery, tries hedonism and tries doing the right thing, but ultimately finds redemption (or at least the prospect of it) by taking a leap of faith and quite literally embracing what only seems irrational.

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