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Description

Winner of the 1961 National Book Award 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... read more

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Memorable Quotes

  • “To become aware of the possibility of a search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.”

First Sentence

This morning I got a note from my aunt asking me to come for lunch.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Walker Percy (Author)
 

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