The Moviegoer: A Novel (FSG Classics)

The Moviegoer: A Novel (FSG Classics)

<p><b>Winner of the 1962 National Book Award and one of <i>Time</i> magazine’s 100 Best English-Language Novels, Walker Percy’s debut <i>The Moviegoer</i> 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. </b></p><p>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 <i>The Third Man</i> or <i>Stagecoach</i>, 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.</p><p>Featuring an afterword by Paul Elie, this new edition of <i>The Moviegoer </i>cements Walker Percy’s place as a giant of American literature.</p>