Condition Fair. A read and worn copy. Winner of the National Book Award (in a year when Franny and Zooey, Catch 22, The Château, and The Spinoza of Market Street were all nominated), included in Time's “Best English Language Novels from 1923-2005” and ranked sixtieth on Modern Library's “Hundred Best Novels from the Twentieth Century”. This is not a novel about going to the movies. It just happens to be that Binx Bolling, the novel's protagonist, is a moviegoer. In fact it is a skeptical novel; a philosophical glance into, if not a certain case study of, everydayness and objectivity clearly drawing influence from the likes of Sartre and Kierkegaard. “On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, Binx Bolling is adrift. 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 quest - a harebrained search for authenticity that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, and sends him reeling through the gaudy chaos of the French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, "The Moviegoer" is a genuine American classic.”