The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
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The Moviegoer

Author: Walker Percy

Narrator: Christopher Hurt

Unabridged: 6 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/05/2008

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

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 smalltime stockbroker who lives quietly in suburban New Orleans, pursuing an interest in the movies, affairs with his secretaries, and living out his days. But soon he finds himself on a search for something more important, some spiritual truth to anchor him. Binxs life floats casually along until one fateful Mardi Gras week, when a bizarre series of events leads him to his unlikely salvation. In his halfbrother Lonnie, who is confined to a wheelchair and soon to die, and his stepcousin Kate, whose predicament is even more ominous, Binx begins to find the sort of certified reality that had eluded him everywhere but at the movies.

About Walker Percy

Walker Percy (1916–1990) was the author of nine books of fiction and nonfiction, including the award-winning The Moviegoer and the New York Times bestsellers The Thanatos Syndrome, Love in the Ruins, and The Second Coming . He is considered one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. He went to medical school, intending to be a psychiatrist, until he had a bout with tuberculosis. He married and converted to Catholicism. He became a writer, and his first novel, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award and has never been out of print.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chuck on January 16, 2024

This is my favorite novel of all time. It is the story of Binx Bolling, a successful, socially prominent New Orleans stockbroker from an old and wealthy family, and how he faces his life in the week of Carnival leading up to his thirtieth birthday on Ash Wednesday. Binx is an avid and successful ski......more

Goodreads review by Vit on October 13, 2022

He surely knows the art of living a typical life… It is a pleasure to carry out the duties of a citizen and to receive in return a receipt or a neat styrene card with one’s name on it certifying, so to speak, one’s right to exist. What satisfaction I take in appearing the first day to get my auto tag......more

Goodreads review by Lawyer on August 26, 2012

The Moviegoer: Walker Percy's Novel of "If That's All There Is" Is that all there is, is that all there is If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing Let's break out the booze and have a ball If that's all there is--Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller If Walker Percy's The Moviegoer ever hits......more

Goodreads review by Steve on December 19, 2013

All hail the Biblioracle, for his powers are immense. I realize that many of you will not be acquainted with this prophet of proper book choices. He writes a column for the Chicago Tribune’s weekly book review supplement. Aside from short essays on book-related topics (think pithier versions of chap......more

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