The Moviegoer: A Novel (FSG Classics)

Winner of the 1962 National Book Award and one of Time magazine?s 100 Best English-Language Novels, Walker Percy?s debut The Moviegoer is an American masterpiece and a classic of Southern literature. Insightful, romantic, and humorous, it is the story of a young man?s search for meaning amid a shallow consumerist landscape. Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker, fills his days with movies and casual sex. His life offers him nothing worth retaining; what he treasures are scenes from The Third Man or Stagecoach, not the personal experiences he knows other people hold dear. On the cusp of turning thirty, however, something changes: At Mardi Gras, he embarks on a quest for some form of authentic experience. The consequences of Binx?s quest, on both himself and his unstable cousin Kate, prove outrageous, absurd, moving, and indelible. Featuring a new afterword by Richard Ford, this new edition of The Moviegoer cements Walker Percy?s place as a giant of American literature.

Author: Walker Percy

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Publication Date: January 15, 2019

Number of Pages: 272 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 0374214522

ISBN-13: 9780374214524