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The Road to Serfdom
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy THE MOVIEGOER
by Walker Percy
read by Christopher Hurt
General Fiction • Unabridged
Format EAN/ISBN Avail. Price Sale Qty.
6 CDs 9781441740090 YES $19.95 NA
1 MP3CD 9780786196623 YES $24.95 NA
5 Tapes* 9780786103911 YES $39.95 $19.98
* packaged in a sturdy vinyl case.
Book ID(1343) - 6.8 hrs (est.), Published - 12/01/98
DESCRIPTION

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.



REVIEWS

"A brilliant novel....Percy touches the rim of so many human mysteries."—Harper's

“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

"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

“This elegantly written account of a young man's search for signs of purpose in the universe is one of the great existential texts of the postwar era and is really funny besides.”—Amazon.com Review



WALKER PERCY went to medical school and interned at Bellevue, intending to be a psychiatrist. After a bout with tuberculosis, he married and converted to Catholicism. He became a writer and his first novel, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award and has never been out of print since its publication. He lived with his wife in Covington, Louisiana, where they operated a bookstore until his death in 1990.



* packaged in a sturdy vinyl case.
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