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Percy, Walker

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 1985

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Percy, Walker

Summary: The Moviegoer (1961), winner of the 1962 National Book Award for Fiction, is the story of John Bickerson "Binx" Bolling, a New Orleans stockbroker who finds in movies a resplendent reality that lifts him, for a time, out of the mire of everydayness. Binx is a modern-day pilgrim whose progress unfolds in what editor Paul Elie calls "the first work of what we call contemporary American fiction,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2024

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