Of Time and the River - Hardcover

Wolfe, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684106809 ISBN 13: 9780684106809

Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1980

Synopsis

Of Time and the River [Aug 01, 1980] Thomas Wolfe

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About the Author

Thomas Wolfe (Author) Thomas Wolfe was born in North Carolina in 1900. His mother ran a boarding house and his father a gravestone business; Wolfe was the youngest of their eight children. His first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, was published in 1929, followed by Of Time and the River in 1935, both heavily revised by his influential editor, Max Perkins. Wolfe died in 1938 from tuberculosis, aged thirty-seven.Elizabeth Kostova (Introducer) Elizabeth Kostova is the author of the novels The Historian (2005) and The Swan Thieves (2010).

Review

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 -- Philip Roth He had that flair for the extravagant and fantastic which has been an American characteristic from Irving and Poe to Dashiell Hammett -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Wolfe wrote as one inspired. No one in his generation had his command of language, his passion, his energy * New Yorker * The product of an immense exuberance, organic in its form, kinetic, and drenched with the love of life ... I rejoice over Mr. Wolfe -- Richard Aldington

Edition details

• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684106809
• ISBN 13: 9780684106809
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 912