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The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

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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...


Author Biography

Name: 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
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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, 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
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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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The Village Voice
The Moviegoer
11/09/2005: 421 words, approx. 1 pages
THE MOVIEGOER HIDDEN CAMERA By Zoran Zivkovic Translated by Alice Copple-Tosic Dalkey Archive, 217 pp., $13.95 In the terrible spring of 1999, Serbian writer Zoran Zivkovic was trapped with his wife and children in their Belgrade apartment. Throughout the 77 days of NATO...
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The Boston Globe
Moviegoers Unaffected
10/12/2000: 448 words, approx. 2 pages
Theater owners are writing another chapter in the history of movies - Chapter 11. Yesterday, General Cinema filed for bankruptcy protection. Landmark Theatres, which owns the art house complexes in Kendall Square in Cambridge and the Embassy in Waltham, filed earlier this year....
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AP News
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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