The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
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“The novel that every young kid stuck in their own head needs to read. | Today’s book cover is falling apart which shows how many times I’ve read it. “The Moviegoer” by Walker Percy. It’s just one of my faves. Binx Bolling and his search. Gets me every time.”
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Ryan Holiday, Most Recommended Books, and Fiction.
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 brin...
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Ryan Holiday, Most Recommended Books, and Fiction.
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Walter Isaacson
“The novel that every young kid stuck in their own head needs to read. | Today’s book cover is falling apart which shows how many times I’ve read it. “The Moviegoer” by Walker Percy. It’s just one of my faves. Binx Bolling and his search. Gets me every time.”
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