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The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (1961-05-12)

Walker Percy

When "The Moviegoer" was first published in 1961, it won the National Book Award and established Walker Percy as one of the supplest and most deftly modulated new voices in Southern literature. In his portrait of a boyish New Orleans stockbroker wavering between ennui and the longing for redemption,...

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George Dawes Green told the story of The Movie Goer by Walker Percy to Tara, a young woman he was on the phone with who was calling the crisis hotline he worked at.

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And so I told her the story of this Walker Percy novel that I was reading, The Movie Goer.

— Episode: The Moth Radio Hour: Hidden Beauty

Episode: The Moth Radio Hour: Hidden Beauty

George Dawes Green told the story of The Movie Goer by Walker Percy to Tara, a young woman he was on the phone with who was calling the crisis hotline he worked at.

"

And so I told her the story of this Walker Percy novel that I was reading, The Movie Goer.

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