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 an afterword by Paul Elie, this new edition of The Moviegoer
cements Walker Percy's place as a giant of American literature.