Walker Percy: The Moviegoer & Other Novels 1961-1971 (LOA #380): The Moviegoer /

Description: Walker Percy: The Moviegoer & Other Novels 1961-1971 (LOA #380) by Walker Percy, Paul Elie A physician-turned-writer and self-described diagnostician of the malaise, Percy plumbed the depths of modern American angst and alienation as few other writers have. Now he joins the Library of America series with a volume collecting his first 3 books. The Moviegoer (1961), winner of the 1962 National Book Award for Fiction, is the story of John Bickerson Binx Bolling, a New Orleans stockbroker who finds in movies a resplendent reality that lifts him, for a time, out of the mire of everydayness. Binx is a modern-day pilgrim whose progress unfolds in what editor Paul Elie calls the first work of what we call contemporary American fiction, the earliest novel to render a set of circumstances and an outlook that still feel recognizably ours. In The Last Gentleman (1966), Percy portrays another troubled, searching young man, this time a southerner living in New York whose intermitent amnesia and odd moments of deja vu lead him to imagine that the world catastrophe everyone fears has already occurred. A satirical work of speculative fiction, Love in the Ruins (1971) introduces lapsed-Catholic psychiatrist Dr. Thomas More, inventor of the lapsometer, a devise that measures the spiritual sickness of a near-apocalyptic America torn apart by the forces of the far right and left. Rounding out the volume are three short nonfiction pieces by Percy: his speech upon accepting the National Book Award, his special message to readers of the Franklin edition of The Moviegoer, and his address to the Publicists Association of the National Book Awards concerning Love in the Ruins. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1916, Walker Percy was trained as a physician at Columbia University. After a years 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. His other books include the novels The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins, and The Thanatos Syndrome as well as the collection of essays The Message in the Bottle. Percy died in Covington, Louisiana, in 1990. Paul Elie is a senior fellow at Georgetown Universitys Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. His first book,The Life You Save May Be Your Own, received the PEN/Martha Albrand Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle award finalist in 2003. He is also the author of Reinventing Bach, a finalist for National Book Critics Circle award in 2012. He lives in New York City. Details ISBN159853775X Author Paul Elie Pages 1000 Publisher The Library of America Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781598537758 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-05-07 Imprint The Library of America Subtitle The Moviegoer / The Last Gentleman / Love in the Ruins Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Edited by Paul Elie Audience General US Release Date 2024-05-07 ISBN-10 159853775X UK Release Date 2024-05-07 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159989813;

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