{"product_id":"the-moviegoer-a-novel-fsg-classics","title":"The Moviegoer: A Novel (FSG Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 1962 National Book Award and one of Time magazine’s 100 Best English-Language Novels, Walker Percy’s debut The Moviegoer is an American masterpiece and a classic of Southern literature. Insightful, romantic, and humorous, it is the story of a young man’s search for meaning amid a shallow consumerist landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBinx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker, fills his days with movies and casual sex. His life offers him nothing worth retaining; what he treasures are scenes from The Third Man or Stagecoach, not the personal experiences he knows other people hold dear. On the cusp of turning thirty, however, something changes: At Mardi Gras, he embarks on a quest for some form of authentic experience. The consequences of Binx’s quest, on both himself and his unstable cousin Kate, prove outrageous, absurd, moving, and indelible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing an afterword by Paul Elie, this new edition of The Moviegoer cements Walker Percy’s place as a giant of American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Inchstone Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63598394769777,"sku":"9780374214524","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0981\/7420\/6321\/files\/9780374214524.jpg?v=1778607159","url":"https:\/\/inchstonebooks.com\/products\/the-moviegoer-a-novel-fsg-classics","provider":"Inchstone Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}