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Apr 14, 1998 · Walker Percy (1916–1990) was one of the most prominent American writers of the twentieth century. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, he was the oldest of three brothers in an established Southern family that contained both a Civil War hero and a U.S. senator.
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273 quotes from Walker Percy: 'You can get all A's and still flunk life.', 'The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future.
Walker Percy’s debut novel, The Moviegoer, was published in 1961 and won the 1962 National Book Award. The novel’s protagonist, Binx Bolling, is a young stockbroker living in a suburb of New Orleans. While struggling with the overwhelming ordinariness that characterizes his life, as well as the lives of most everyone he knows, Binx embarks ...
Walker Percy has 68 books on Goodreads with 605203 ratings. Walker Percy’s most popular book is The Moviegoer.
Jan 15, 2019 · Rereading Walker Percy at age 30 is a bit unnerving. When I first read The Moviegoer, at age 18, it was a mesmerizing, eye-opening experience. I entered an entirely new world, and fell in love with the protagonist, Binx Bolling. I saw him as revolutionary, uniquely perceptive, a sighted man in a world of the blind.
Walker Percy was born into a well-off Alabama family, the eldest of three sons. His life was marked by tragedy: when Percy was 13, his father committed suicide (as Percy’s grandfather had also done), and three years later, his mother was killed in a car accident.
Jan 31, 2022 · Walker Percy was an American novelist and essayist whose interests included spirituality, philosophy and religion. His first novel, The Moviegoer, won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in ...
