The Moviegoer

Walker Percy

Christopher Hurt (Narrator)

12-01-98

6hrs 39min

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12-01-98

6hrs 39min

Abridgement

Unabridged

Genre

Fiction/Classics

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“Mr. Percy is a breathtakingly brilliant writer.” New York Times Book Review

Winner of the 1962 National Book Award for Fiction
A BuzzFeed Books Pick of Great Books That You May Not Know About
One of Time Magazine's Best 100 English-Language Novels from 1923–2005
One of Modern Library's 100 Best English-Language Novels of the Twentieth Century
A Wall Street Journal Pick for 5 Best Novels of Despair

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.

Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic.

Praise

“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

“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

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

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Language English
Release Day Nov 30, 1998
Release Date December 1, 1998
Release Date Machine 912470400
Imprint Blackstone Publishing
Provider Blackstone Publishing
Categories Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Classics, Literary Fiction, Classics, Evergreen Classics, Evergreen Classics, Classics, Fiction - All, Fiction - Adult
Author Bio
Walker Percy

Walker Percy (1916–1990) was the author of nine books of fiction and nonfiction, including the award-winning The Moviegoer and the New York Times bestsellers The Thanatos Syndrome, Love in the Ruins, and The Second Coming . He is considered one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. He went to medical school, intending to be a psychiatrist, until he had 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.

Narrator Bio
Christopher Hurt

Christopher Hurt is an accomplished narrator with a lengthy résumé of popular titles for Blackstone. A graduate of George Washington University’s acting program, he currently resides in New York City.

Overview

Winner of the 1962 National Book Award for Fiction
A BuzzFeed Books Pick of Great Books That You May Not Know About
One of Time Magazine's Best 100 English-Language Novels from 1923–2005
One of Modern Library's 100 Best English-Language Novels of the Twentieth Century
A Wall Street Journal Pick for 5 Best Novels of Despair

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.

Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic.

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