The Moviegoer - Wikipedia The Moviegoer tells the story of Jack "Binx" Bolling, a young stock-broker in postwar New Orleans The decline of tradition in the Southern United States, the problems of his family and his traumatic experiences in the Korean War have left him alienated from his own life
The Moviegoer: A Novel (FSG Classics) - Amazon 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
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy | Goodreads Percy is noted for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans; his first, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award for Fiction Trained as a physician at Columbia University, Percy decided to become a writer after a bout of tuberculosis
The Moviegoer - Macmillan 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
Available Now - The Moviegoer - Wisconsin Public Library Consortium . . . A winner of the National Book Award, The Moviegoer established Walker Percy as an insightful and grimly humorous storyteller It is the tale of Binx Bolling, a small-time stockbroker who lives quietly in suburban New Orleans, pursuing an interest in the movies, affairs with his secretaries, and livi
The Moviegoer Summary and Study Guide | SuperSummary Walker Percy’s debut novel, The Moviegoer, was published in 1961 and won the 1962 National Book Award The novel’s protagonist, Binx Bolling, is a young stockbroker living in a suburb of New Orleans
The Moviegoer | Dennis Lim, Gabriel Winslow-Yost Lim has had a long and varied career as a film critic and curator From 2000 to 2006 he was the film editor of the Village Voice, from 2013 to 2022 the director of programming for Film at Lincoln Center, and since 2020 he has been the chief curator of the New York Film Festival