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The Moviegoer

Book Review: Rereading Walker Percy’s “The Moviegoer”

January 3, 2020

Posted in Books, Featured, Review

It’s Walker Percy’s subversive strategy to stick us with a decided non-hero and have us gradually appreciate his non-participatory status.

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