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Open Road
April 2011
On Sale: March 29, 2011
ISBN: 1453216251 EAN: 9781453216255 e-Book
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Literature and Fiction
The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of
the major voices in Southern literature is now available for
the first time in Vintage paperback. 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, he occupies himself dallying with
his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with
the "treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one
fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a hare-brained quest
that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate,
and sends him reeling through the chaos of New Orleans'
French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and
romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic.
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