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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 | : | 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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Ratings: 3.68 From 23905 Users | 1918 ReviewsJudge Containing Books The Moviegoer
I come away from "The Moviegoer" with very mixed feelings. Walker Percy was a beautiful writer, and I found myself reading several passages more than once just to enjoy the language, but I think I may be too old, even at 35, to truly appreciate and connect with a novel driven almost completely by existential feelings. It's not that I never personally feel existential dread -- I do, far more often than I'd like -- but, for the most part, I got the reading of these types of novels out of my systemBefore 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
The Moviegoer: Walker Percy's Novel of "If That's All There Is"Is that all there is, is that all there isIf that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancingLet's break out the booze and have a ballIf that's all there is--Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller If Walker Percy's The Moviegoer ever hits the screen, I'm sure Peggy Lee singing "Is That All There Is" will be on the soundtrack. And, if Binx Bolling is there to see it, I wonder if he'll recognize himself.Not in the mood for a little
Binx Bolling.He's the most boring man aliveHe finds all he needs in a movie theater.Driving cars gives him a feeling of malaise.He carries war scars, he doesn't share.He awakes 'in the grip of everydayness' it's the enemy, with no escape.He doesn't always go to the movies, but when does he goes as a moviegoer. He is the most boring man alive.
Terry wrote: "Great review! Its going on my TBR."I hope you will love the journey as much as I did.
**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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