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Winner of the 1962 National Book Award and one of Time magazine’s 100 Best English-Language Novels, Walker Percy’s debut The Moviegoer 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. 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 The Third Man or Stagecoach, 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. Featuring a new afterword by Richard Ford, this new edition of The Moviegoer cements Walker Percy’s place as a giant of American literature.
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MOVIEGOER, Walker Percy
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- Jaar van publicatie
- 2018
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- Titel
- MOVIEGOER
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Walker Percy
- Uitgever
- Macmillan USA
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2018
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 272
- ISBN10
- 0374214522
- ISBN13
- 9780374214524
- Reeks
- Tags
- Fictie, Klassiekers, Verenigde Staten, Amerikaanse Literatuur, Naoorlogse Periode, Zuidelijke Verenigde Staten, Debuut, Existentialisme, New Orleans
- Eerste editie
- 1961
- Oorspronkelijke titel
- The Moviegoer
- Beoordeling
- 3,65 van 5
- Aantekening
- Winner of the 1962 National Book Award and one of Time magazine’s 100 Best English-Language Novels, Walker Percy’s debut The Moviegoer 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. 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 The Third Man or Stagecoach, 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. Featuring a new afterword by Richard Ford, this new edition of The Moviegoer cements Walker Percy’s place as a giant of American literature.