Of Time and The River

Of Time and The River

<p> Eugene Gant is hungry — for knowledge, for beauty, for life itself. Raised in the mountains of North Carolina, he arrives at Harvard burning with an ambition he cannot quite name and a longing he cannot quite satisfy. From the lecture halls of Cambridge to the frantic energy of New York City, where he teaches by day and writes through the night, Eugene searches restlessly for something that always seems just out of reach. </p> <p> When he travels to Europe with his brilliant, elusive friend Francis Starwick, the search intensifies — and the losses deepen. What does it mean to be an artist? What is America? What is time? And why does the past weigh so heavily on a young man who wants nothing more than to run headlong into the future? </p> <p> First published in 1935, Of Time and the River is Thomas Wolfe's epic fictionalized autobiography — a torrential, lyrical, and unflinchingly honest portrait of youth and ambition in 1920s America. It is one of the great novels of American modernism: vast in scope, overwhelming in feeling, and impossible to forget. </p> <p> If you have ever felt that the world was not big enough to contain you, this is your book. Read it now.<span id="bx-cursor-node"> </span> </p>