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The Moviegoer (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By Walker Percy

$16.00

ISBN: 9780375701962

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Published: Vintage - April 14th, 1998

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Binx Bolling is as typical a fellow as can be: 1950s middle-class stock broker who never strays far from home, and is content with his banal lifestyle. However, he is as existentially self-aware as a Dostoevsky's Ivan or Raskolnikov, and struggles to remain connected to reality, despite the listlessness of life and the movie theater threatening to tear him away from himself.

 

Matthew

Brideshead Revisited (Paperback)

By Evelyn Waugh

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ISBN: 9780316216456

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Published: Back Bay Books - December 11th, 2012

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In Brideshead Revisited, Waugh portrays every aspect in which one might pride oneself, and then eclipses it. Are you sophisticated? Meet Anthony Blanche. An aesthete? See Charles Ryder. Charming? Enter Sebastian. Erudite, heart-wrenching, and witty, Brideshead is a novel to which I am constantly returning, as Waugh masterfully captures humankind's intolerable wrestle with our loss of innocence and the hope of someday coming home.

 

Matthew