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Book Review of The Moviegoer

The Moviegoer
The Moviegoer
Author: Walker Percy
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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The protagonist, Binx Bolling, the "moviegoer", inhabits a world that is a strange admixture of ordinary life and work in suburban New Orleans and the celluloid reality of the movies. Percy seduces the reader into this light-and-shadow realm with some expertly drawn characters.Binx is happy in a movie, even a bad movie; the reader will be held by this novel, unsettling though it may be.