The second novel by the great American novelist, now the subject of a major new film, Genius, starring Jude Law, Colin Firth, Dominic West & Nicole Kidman. It is 1920 & Eugene Gant leaves the American South for Harvard, New York & Europe, determined to make his way as a writer. On the boat home, he meets Esther Jack, the woman who is to dominate his life. Autobiographical, vital & passionate, Wolfe`s second novel blazes with energy & life. Wolfe`s first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, is also now available in Penguin Classics. Together, the two novels tell the story of Eugene Gant, Wolfe`s fictional alter-ego, as he grows up in a dysfunctional family in the American South & discovers his true vocation as a writer. This new edition
Includes:: an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian.