The Moviegoer

Winner of the 1961 National Book Award

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 surv [...]
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Winner of the 1961 National Book Award

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.