Read about another book on the list.The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
Winner of the 1961 National Book Award, Walker Percy's wry masterpiece is an erotically charged romp through NOLA's Dionysian underbelly alongside young stockbroker Binx Bolling. A keen and imaginative discourse on the search for meaning and redemption, The Moviegoer could be considered the great New Orleans novel (another contender is John Kennedy Toole's hilarious, posthumously lauded satire A Confederacy of Dunces).
The Moviegoer is among Jon Krakauer's five best books about mortality and existential angst and Richard Ford's 5 most essential books.
--Marshal Zeringue
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