Of Time and the River - (Scribner Classics) by Thomas Wolfe (Hardcover)
Similar Products
Products of same category from the store
All
Product info
<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"New introduction by Pat Conroy"--Jacket.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The sequel to Thomas Wolfe's remarkable first novel, <i>Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River</i> is one of the great classics of American literature. The book chronicles the maturing of Wolfe's autobiographical character, Eugene Gant, in his desperate search for fulfillment, making his way from small-town North Carolina to the wider world of Harvard University, New York City, and Europe. In a massive, ambitious, and boldly passionate novel, Wolfe examines the passing of time and the nature of the creative process, as Gant slowly but ecstatically embraces the urban life, recognizing it as a necessary ordeal for the birth of his creative genius as a writer. <br> The work of an exceptionally expressive writer of fertile imagination and startling emotional intensity, <i>Of Time and the River</i> illuminates universal truths about art and life, city and country, past and present. It is a novel that is majestic and enduring. As P. M. Jack observed in <i>The New York Times, </i> It is a triumphant demonstration that Thomas Wolfe has the stamina to produce a magnificent epic of American life. <br> This edition, published in celebration of Wolfe's centennial anniversary, contains a new introduction by Pat Conroy<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"In 1949, when I was sixteen, I stumbled on Thomas Wolfe, who died at thirty-eight in 1938, and who made numerous adolescents aside from me devotees of literature for life. In Wolfe, everything was heroically outsized, whether it was the voracious appetite for experience of Eugene Gant, the hero of his first two novels, or of George Webber, the hero of his last two. The hero's loneliness, his egocentrism, his sprawling consciousness gave rise to a tone of elegiac lyricism that was endlessly sustained by the raw yearning for an epic existence--for an epic <i>American </i>existence. And, in those postwar years, what imaginative young reader didn't yearn for that?"--Philip Roth<br>
Price History
Cheapest price in the interval: 44.99 on October 28, 2021
Most expensive price in the interval: 44.99 on December 20, 2021
Price Archive shows prices from various stores, lets you see history and find the cheapest. There is no actual sale on the website. For all support, inquiry and suggestion messagescommunication@pricearchive.us