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Sinossi
Binx Bolling diffida della realtà, schermo grigio e indifferente. Diffida del prossimo, della normalità a cui è chiamato. Binx Bolling preferisce il cinema, che rida senso all'esistenza. Preferisce le belle donne, che strappano ai suoi occhi lacrime di gratitudine. È la sua via verso la Meraviglia e il Mistero. Kate Cutrer è vittima di una sinistra magia: trasforma quello che tocca in orrore. Ma quando tutto è perso, quando gli altri si disperano per lei, è allora, nel momento più nero, che Kate appare come la divina, la donna più affascinante di New Orleans. Tony Curtis, Rory Calhoun, Bill Holden sono con loro, New Orleans è con loro. Binx e Kate si riconoscono al volo, si fiutano a lungo, tentano di evitarsi, si ritrovano. Un romanzo sulle trappole della modernità, due personaggi indimenticabili, una storia d'amore.
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- Pagine: 347
- Data di uscita: 22-04-2010
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“The fact is I am quite happy in a movie,even a bad movie...What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Wells in the doorway in the Third Man.” Binx Bolling is floating through life Leggi tutto
This is my favorite novel of all time. It is the story of Binx Bolling, a successful, socially prominent New Orleans stockbroker from an old and wealthy family, and how he faces his life in the week of Carnival leading up to his thirtieth birthday on Ash Wednesday. Binx is an avid and successful ski Leggi tutto
He surely knows the art of living a typical life… It is a pleasure to carry out the duties of a citizen and to receive in return a receipt or a neat styrene card with one’s name on it certifying, so to speak, one’s right to exist. What satisfaction I take in appearing the first day to get my auto tag Leggi tutto
FAMOUS FACEPALM MOMENTS IN AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORYNO. 32 15th May 1962 : it is decision day for the National Book Award Committee. They have been pondering a shortlist of eleven books. 1961 was a strong year for the American novel and the shortlist includes Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates and
Shitty, shitty book. With no plot & worse, no climax, whatsoever. Just...pretty megabaffling!
I couldn't get through this book. Percy writes a detailed and interesting setting, and a meandering narrator/main character. But really, I think the same way about this as I do books like Emma-- As in, why do I care if rich idiots are sad about their affluent lifestyle that is free of any socio-econo Leggi tutto
The Moviegoer: Walker Percy's Novel of "If That's All There Is" Is that all there is, is that all there isIf that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancingLet's break out the booze and have a ballIf that's all there is--Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller If Walker Percy's The Moviegoer ever hits
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