About the book
Walker Percy's debut novel centers on Jack Binx Bolling, a young stockbroker in postwar New Orleans who is a week short of his 30th birthday. Unsettled by his experiences in the Korean War, the fading of Southern tradition and his family's troubles, he daydreams, dallies with his secretaries and finds more life in films than in his own routine. During Mardi Gras he breaks from that routine on a spiritual search. Shaped by Kierkegaard's existentialism yet light in tone, the novel won the National Book Award.
Ryan Holiday recommends it to young people trapped inside their own heads and likens it to a grown-up Catcher in the Rye, about a man so taken with movies that he struggles to live his real life.
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Ryan Holiday (Founder/Brass Check)
The Moviegoer is exactly the novel that every young kid stuck in their own head needs to read. The main character—who lives in New Orleans just a few blocks from where I lived—is so in love with the artificiality of movies that he has trouble living his actual life. The Moviegoer—it is like a good Catcher in the Rye but for adults. Just a perfect book.
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