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May 7, 2024 · It’s a banner time for serious readers of contemporary American literature, for students of Southern literature, and for anyone who senses a relationship between a reading experience and the tragicomic nature of human pilgrimage. Walker Percy: The Moviegoer & Other Novels 1961–1971 is now in a compact edition published by The Library of America.
May 27, 2024 · Book Review: Rereading Walker Percy’s “The Moviegoer”. By Gerald Peary. It’s Walker Percy’s subversive strategy to stick us with a decided nonhero and have us gradually appreciate his nonparticipatory status. When I was 17, and an avid film watcher, I checked out from the library Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer, winner of the 1961 ...
May 22, 2024 · Published in 1961, Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer announced a major new voice in American fiction. In this lush, New Orleans–based novel, the forty-four-year-o...
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May 16, 2024 · Scott Walker - The Ballad Of Sacco And Vanzetti The Moviegoer, 1972.
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May 22, 2024 · Tuesday, May 21—Published in 1961, Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer announced a major new voice in American fiction. In this lush, New Orleans–based novel, the forty-four-year-old doctor-turned-writer set out to explore what he called “the strange spiritual malady of the modern age.” What he gave us, says writer Paul Elie, editor of a new LOA edition of Percy’s novels, is “the first ...
May 7, 2024 · Born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1916, Walker Percy was trained as a physician at Columbia University. After a year’s internship at Bellevue Hospital in New York, he contracted tuberculosis and abandoned medicine for a literary career. His first novel, The Moviegoer, was awarded the 1962 National Book Award for Fiction.
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