Of Time and The River

by Thomas Wolfe

Overview

Eugene leaves the American South for Harvard New York and Europe determined to make his way as a writer. On the boat home he meets Esther, the woman who is to dominate his life. Autobiographical, vital, and passionate, Wolfe's second novel Of Time and the River blazes with energy and life. Like his first novel Look Homeward, Angel, it tells the story of Eugene Gant, Wolfe's fictional alter-ego as he grows up in a dysfunctional family in the American South and discovers his true vocation as a writer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781773233826
Publisher:	Reading Essentials
Publication date:	12/28/2018
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

A larger than life figure -- like his contemporary, Ernest Hemingway -- Thomas Wolfe embodied a particularly American vision of the restless and eager writer, taking in the totality of his life experience and turning it into a gigantic, unwieldy vision in prose. With the publication of his semiautobiographical Look Homeward, Angel in 1929, Wolfe announced his dramatic entrance on the stage of modern fiction; but an early death made his exit sadly premature.

Date of Birth:

October 3, 1900

Date of Death:

September 15, 1938

Place of Birth:

Asheville, North Carolina

Place of Death:

Baltimore, Maryland

Education:

B.A., University of North Carolina, 1920; M.A., Harvard University, 1922; further graduate study, 1923