Moviegoer by Percy Walker Paperback Book

Description: Moviegoer by Percy Walker The portrait of a New Orleans stockbroker, Binx Bolling, turning thirty and caught between ennui and a need for redemption through women, family or personal revelation, The Moviegoer won the National Book Award in the USA on its first publication in 1961. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Winner of the 1961 National Book Award The Moviegoer is the dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature. 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, Binx Bolling is adrift in New Orleans. He occupies himself with dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the treasurable moments lacking in his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a hare-brained search for authenticity that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin, Kate, and sends him reeling through the chaos of the French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, The Moviegoer combines Bourbon Street elegance with the spiritual urgency of a Russian novel in a genuine American classic. Notes A rediscovered American classic of the 1960s. Winner of the National Book Award, 1961. "Mr Percy is a breathtakingly brilliant writer" New York Times Book Review. Author Biography Walker Percy was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1916, graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1937 and became Doctor of Medicine at Columbia University in 1941. The Moviegoer, his first novel, was awarded the 1962 National Book Award for Fiction. Mr Percys other novels include The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins, Lancelot, The Second Coming and The Thanatos Syndrome. Walker Percy died in 1990. Review " So sharp, witty and profound ... Percy should have an acknowledged place between John Updike and Richard Ford as a great chronicler of twentieth century small town American malaise. The Guardian * Some novels simply do not go away. They lodge in your consciousness, expanding rather than disappearing after the last page is turned ... Their mysteries deepen with each reading. Your curiosity about them is never quenched. The Moviegoer has proved to be just such a book for me, as it has for countless others. New Statesman * A modern classic ... Wry and lyrical, it will be a discovery for those who have not yet read it and a double pleasure for those who will read it again. The Times * Funny and sad ... a gifted Southern master with a flair bordering on genius. Irish Times * His story is often so shrewdly witty, even outright funny, that one forgets it is a novel about despair. New York Herald Tribune" Details ISBN0413773272 Pages 256 Publisher Methuen Publishing Ltd Year 2004 ISBN-10 0413773272 ISBN-13 9780413773272 Format Paperback Publication Date 2004-02-27 Imprint Methuen Publishing Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.54 Media Book Edited by Percy, Walker UK Release Date 2004-02-27 NZ Release Date 2004-02-27 Author Percy Walker Edition Description New edition Audience General AU Release Date 2008-12-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:675008;

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