The Moviegoer

Name: The Moviegoer
Author: Walker Percy

by Walker Percy

Novel of a young man searching for meaning through cinema and sexual encounters in New Orleans

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Walker Percy

Walker Percy was a Catholic Southern novelist who drew on existentialism and Christian theology to write diagnostic novels about the spiritual malaise of modern America. The Moviegoer won the National Book Award.

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