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The Moviegoer Quotes
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 The Moviegoer ( 1961 ) by Walker Percy Today is my thirtieth birthday and I sit on the ocean wave in the schoolyard and wait for Kate and think of nothing. Now in the thirty-first year of my dark pilgrimage on this earth and knowing less than I ever...



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Walker Percy | | Birth Date: |
May 28, 1916 | | Death Date: |
May 10, 1990 | | Place of Birth: |
Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America | | Place of Death: |
Covington, Louisiana, United States of America | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
novelist |
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Biography of Walker Percy
3166 words, approx. 10.6 pages
 Walker Percy was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on 28 May 1916. He married Mary Bernice Townsend in 1946, has two daughters, and is very much the family man and private person at his home in Covington, Louisiana. He claims to read little fiction and to ass...
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Biography of Walker Percy
1650 words, approx. 5.5 pages
 Walker Percy (1916-1990) won the National Book Award for fiction in 1961 for his first published novel, The Moviegoer. In five subsequent novels and numerous essays, he explored his chosen theme of "the dislocation of man in the modern age." His work com...


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The Moviegoer Information
168 words, approx. 1 pages
 The Moviegoer is a 1961 novel by Walker Percy. It won a National Book Award in 1962. The Moviegoer recounts the story of Binx Bolling, an alienated, anxious young stockbroker, who seeks meaning for his existence by embarking upon a "search." During a...




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Movie mistake: Families get horror film
4/7/2007: 288 words, approx. 1 pages An audience expecting to watch a family film was stunned to get an glimpse of a horror movie, which left some parents shaken and the theater chain apologizing for the movie mix-up.The moviegoers were expecting to see "The Last Mimzy," the PG-rated tale of a...
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Book focuses on lost movie poster art
6/29/2007: 609 words, approx. 2 pages During the early years of motion pictures, theaters across the country shunned studio-produced promotional displays and instead hired their own artists to paint movie posters that would better entice ticket buyers.Because they had to work ahead of the film's schedule, most of the artists never...
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Tenn. mayor takes homeless to movie
12/16/2006: 627 words, approx. 2 pages Inspired by his father, who was homeless for a time as a teenager, Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield tried to raise the hopes of a group of homeless people by taking them to see a new movie that tells a rags-to-riches story."The Pursuit of Happyness," a...
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Ethanol makers join food vs. fuel debate
8/2/2007: 960 words, approx. 3 pages Ethanol producers are clamoring over food industry claims that prices on everything from popcorn to soda are skyrocketing because of the rising demand for corn to make the renewable fuel.Ethanol backers in Iowa focused their ire on the industry, particularly the popcorn market, during a...


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