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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) |
Walker Percy
Paperback | Pages: 242 pages Rating: 3.68 | 23905 Users | 1918 Reviews
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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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| Title | : | The Moviegoer |
| Author | : | Walker Percy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe 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 Sacramental Kiss of a Bloody FingerBinx Bolling marries Kate Cutrer, even though a bystander, much less the Cutrer family, would not have suspected these two were in love. The Moviegoer is the strange story of one week of Binxs life, on the eve of his thirtieth birthday, which happens to fall on Ash Wednesday. Binx is searching for something in life, but for what he is not too sure. He is just a normal guy living in Gentilly, a New Orleans suburb, with a normal stockbroker job in a fine**This review contains spoilers**New Orleans, 1960's. Jack "Binx" Bolling is 30, comes from a well off background, makes his money as a stock broker, and likes girls, and oh yes, he likes going to movies....a lot. But Binx is not happy, he is stuck, going without direction, without purpose; problem is, he doesn't know where to go, what to do next. His distant cousin, Kate Cutrer, he can relate to. She is also stuck, mainly because she suffers severe psychological issues. There is a connection
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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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Southern Existentialism New Orleans is both intimately related to the South and yet in a real sense cut adrift not only from the South but the rest of Louisiana.... A proper enough American city and yet within the next few hours the tourist is apt to see more nuns and naked women than he ever saw before.Walker PercyI love this Percy quote because he so aptly captures the essence of this city below sea level, affectionately known as The Big Easy. Walker Percy was awarded the National Book Award
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