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Winner of the 1961 National Book AwardThe stunning story that established Walker Percy as you of the main voices in Southern literature has become available for the very first time in Classic paperback.The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a New Orleans stockbroker who reviews the planet with the separate look of the Bourbon Street dandy even while he yearns for a religious payoff he can't bring himself to think in. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he consumes himself dallying with his assistants and likely to films, which provide him with the "treasurable times" missing from his actual life. But one fateful Mardigras, Binx embarks on the hare-brained mission that outrages his family, endangers his delicate relative Kate, and sends him spinning through the chaos of New Orleans' French Quarter. Wrenching and wry, full of irony and love, The Moviegoer is just a true American classic.