Winner of the 1961 National Book AwardThe dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southernliterature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback.The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young Ne...

Will Barrett (also the hero of Percy's The Last Gentleman) is a lonely widower suffering from a depression so severe that he decides he doesn't want to continue living. But then he meets Allison, a mental hospital escapee making a new...

Percy’s second novel is the comic tale of Will Barrett, a Candide-like young innocent working at Macy’s in New York City, who falls in love with Kitty Vaught. He accompanies her and her bizarre family to her Southern home,...