The Moviegoer
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The Moviegoer
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Narrated by:
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Christopher Hurt
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Walker Percy
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 small-time 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.
Binx’s life floats casually along until one fateful Mardi Gras week, when a bizarre series of events leads him to his unlikely salvation. In his half brother 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.
Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic.
©1960 , 1961 by Walker Percy (P)1992 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Critic reviews
“Mr. Percy is a breathtakingly brilliant writer.”
(New York Times Book Review)“In a gentle Southern accent narrator Christopher Hurt delivers the story with a slow, lazy lilt which suits the text and evokes a pervading spiritual emptiness.”
(AudioFile)“Clothed in originality, intelligence, and a fierce regard for man's fate…Percy has a rare talent for making his people look and sound as though they were being seen and heard for the first time by anyone.”
(Time)“A brilliant novel...Percy touches the rim of so many human mysteries.”
(Harper's)