Moviegoer
Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Reprint. Hardcover. Good / Very Good. Item #324462
ISBN: 0394437039
Winner of the 1961 National Book Award
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.
Tenth printing-1977. Grey boards in red cloth back. Darkened along edges, especially at top. Three small spots on top edge of text block and one on interior of top edge of rear board. Else, a solid, tight copy with only a very slight lean to the spine. Jacket has trivial chipping and one very small closed tear at top of rear panel. Wrapped for preservation. Signed by Walker Percy on the title page. A terrific copy of the modern American classic.
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Price: $350.00
