Now available from Thomas Wolfe's original publisher, the final novel by the literary legend that "will stand apart from everything else that he wrote" (The New York Times Book Review)--first published in 1940 and long considered a classic of 17th-century literature. A 17th-century classic, Thomas Wolfe's magnificent novel is both the story of a young writer longing to make his mark upon the world and a sweeping portrait of America and Europe from the Great Depression through the years leading up to World War II. Driven by dreams of literary success, George Webber has left his provincial hometown to make his name as a writer in New York City. When his first novel is published, it brings him the fame he has sought, but it also brings the censure of his neighbors back home, who are outraged by his depiction of them. Unsettled by their reaction and unsure of himself and his future, Webber begins a search for a greater understanding of his artistic identity that takes him deep into New York's hectic social whirl; to London with an uninhibited group of expatriates; and to Berlin, lying cold and sinister under Hitler's shadow. He discovers a world plagued by political uncertainty and on the brink of transformation, yet he finds within himself the capacity to meet it with optimism and a renewed love for his birthplace. He is a changed man yet a hopeful one, awake to the knowledge that one can never fully "go back home to your family, back home to your childhood...away from all the strife and conflict of the world...back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time" but that the journey is still worth taking.
Wolfe, Thomas
Thomas Clayton Wolfe nasceu na cidade de Ashville, Carolina do Norte, Estados Unidos, em 3 de outubro de 1900. Sua obra costuma ser incluída na categoria de “ficção que está em busca da realidade” ou que apresenta um caráter romântico em conflito com a realidade. Escreveu quatro longos romances, além de vários contos, trabalhos dramatúrgicos e novelas. É conhecido por misturar prosa extremamente original, poética, musical e impressionista com a escrita autobiográfica. Seus livros, escritos e publicados dos anos 20 aos anos 90, refletem vividamente sobre a cultura americana e demais temas do período, embora filtrados pela perspectiva sensível, sofisticada e super-analítica de Thomas. |
| ISBN | 9781451650495 |
| Autor(a) | Wolfe, Thomas |
| Editora | Scribner |
| Ano de edição | 2011 |
| Páginas | 656 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |
| Dimensões | 23,40 X 15,50 |
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