Binx Bolling is a young and successful stockbroker, scion of an old Creole family from New Orleans, whose story unfolds through his own narrations, his mother's, and the dynamic Aunt Emily's. He fills his days with cinema and casual sex. Everyday life offers him nothing worth holding onto. He only values scenes from movies like The Third Man and Stagecoach, but not the personal, emotional moments that he knows others consider precious. However, before he turns thirty, everything changes for the protagonist of the book. He embarks on a quest for a kind of authentic experience. The consequences of this endeavor, both for himself and his unstable cousin Kate, prove to be terrible, tragic, and indelible. The Moviegoer, Walker Percy's first novel, is a modern American masterpiece and an iconic work of Southern literature. Insightful and romantic, with subtle humor even when it reaches the depths of despair, it speaks of a man searching for meaning in a shallow consumer world.