The first novel by the great American novelist, now the subject of a major new film, Genius, starring Jude Law, Colin Firth, Dominic West & Nicole Kidman. Eugene Gant, born in 1900 to hard-drinking stone-cutter Oliver & entrepreneurial Eliza, grows up in small-town America. Both lonely outsider & passionate chronicler of American life, Eugene experiences upheaval & family tragedy before coming to realise that he must leave his home behind if he is to forge his own path in the world. This is the dazzlingly rich first novel from one of the most brilliant & mercurial voices of early twentieth-century, who was a major influence on writers including Hunter S Thompson, Ray Bradbury, Philip Roth & the Beats. This new edition
Includes:: an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian. Wolfe`s second novel, Of Time & the River, continuing the story of Eugene Gant, is also now available in Penguin Classics.