The Moviegoer-看电影的人

作者：Percy Walker

书名：The Moviegoer《看电影的人》

中文简介：The Moviegoer《看电影的人》是沃克·珀西的处女作，1961年在美国第一次出版。它获得了美国国家图书奖。本书描述了比克·保林是一个小股票债券经纪人。他在新奥尔良郊区过着平静的生活,喜爱看电影,与女秘书谈情说爱。但是,他发现自己所要追寻的是某种更为重要的东西,他终于找到了自己所希冀的东西,并与一个他不曾想过的女人结成旅伴。

英文简介：The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback.

The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he yearns for a spiritual redemption he cannot bring himself to believe in. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he occupies himself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the "treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a hare-brained quest that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, and sends him reeling through the chaos of New Orleans' French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic.