bIn 1 volume, 3 classic early works by the Southern physician-turned-novelist who galvanized American literature with stories of spiritual searching amid modern angst pIncludes the landmark, National Book Award-winning iThe Moviegoeri, in a fully annotation editionb pA physician-turned-writer and self-described diagnostician of the malaise, Percy plumbed the depths of modern American angst and alienation as few other writers have. Now he joins the Library of America series with a volume collecting his first 3 books. pibThe Moviegoerbi 1961, winner of the 1962 National Book Award for Fiction, is the story of John Bickerson Binx Bolling, a New Orleans stockbroker who finds in movies a resplendent reality that lifts him, for a time, out of the mire of everydayness. Binx is a modern-day pilgrim whose progress unfolds in what editor Paul Elie calls the first work of what we call contemporary American fiction, the earliest novel to render a set of circumstances and an outlook that still feel