The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, published in 1961, is a National Book Award winning novel. The story begins in postwar New Orleans where Binx Bolling, a young stockbroker, feels alienated from his family and society. He finds more meaning in movies than in his own life. The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling's spiritual journey as he compares himself to friends, family, and the world as a whole in an attempt to find his inner self.
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 "t...
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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, ...
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Walker Percy
Walker Percy