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 ...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.