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Format: CD
CD
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
ISBN-10: 0786199253
ISBN-13: 9780786199259
Buy.com Sku: 30600694
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 6.75H x 7L x 0.5T
Age Range:
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Annotation:
This acclaimed novel is narrated by Binx Bolling, a businessman from a genteel Louisiana family. Binx finds peace by going to the movies, but he is haunted by what he calls "malaise," a combination of depression and despair. His search for meaning and authenticity in his life forms the action of this novel.
This acclaimed novel is narrated by Binx Bolling, a businessman from a genteel Louisiana family. Binx finds peace by going to the movies, but he is haunted by what he calls "malaise," a combination of depression and despair. His search for meaning and authenticity in his life forms the action of this novel.
Author Bio
Walker Percy
Walker Percy was educated at the University of North Carolina, then studied medicine at Columbia. While working at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, he contracted tuberculosis; confined to a sanitarium, he began writing fiction. Percy converted to Catholicism in 1946 and, with the publication of THE MOVIEGOER in 1961, he began to be perceived as one of the leading Southern writers. Percy, who also wrote theological and philosophical works, invariably concentrates in his fiction on alienated men in the midst of an existential crisis. His recurring subjects are medicine, Catholicism, sex, and his native South.
Harper's
"...a lean, tartly written, subtle, not very dramatic attack on the wholly bourgeois way of life and thinking in a 'gracious,' and 'historic' part of the South. But instead of becoming another satire on the South's retreat from its traditions, it [is], for all the narrator's bantering light tone, an altogether tragic and curiously noble study in the loneliness of necessary human perceptions." - Alfred Kazin New York Review of Books
"[The Moviegoer] remains Percy's purest and most exact description of that malady of extreme detachment from perception and action which allows the victim to make contact with reality only when he is first dislodged, with greater or less violence, from his accustomed perch." - Thomas Nagel Salon
"A witty and ironic novel in which melancholia and existential anomie are persistent themes. One of the reasons that Percy's work has achieved the status of a modern classic is that it helped redefine the modern South, marking off the boundary line between the traditional landscape of moonlight and magnolias and the new cosmos of shopping malls, country clubs and the anxieties of urban society." - William Styron 10/25/1999
"...a lean, tartly written, subtle, not very dramatic attack on the wholly bourgeois way of life and thinking in a 'gracious,' and 'historic' part of the South. But instead of becoming another satire on the South's retreat from its traditions, it [is], for all the narrator's bantering light tone, an altogether tragic and curiously noble study in the loneliness of necessary human perceptions." - Alfred Kazin New York Review of Books
"[The Moviegoer] remains Percy's purest and most exact description of that malady of extreme detachment from perception and action which allows the victim to make contact with reality only when he is first dislodged, with greater or less violence, from his accustomed perch." - Thomas Nagel Salon
"A witty and ironic novel in which melancholia and existential anomie are persistent themes. One of the reasons that Percy's work has achieved the status of a modern classic is that it helped redefine the modern South, marking off the boundary line between the traditional landscape of moonlight and magnolias and the new cosmos of shopping malls, country clubs and the anxieties of urban society." - William Styron 10/25/1999
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