Look Homeward, Angel - Tom Wolfe

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The first novel by the great American novelist, now the subject ofa major new film, Genius, starring Jude Law, Colin Firth, DominicWest and Nicole Kidman. Eugene Gant, born in 1900 to hard-drinkingstone-cutter Oliver and entrepreneurial Eliza, grows up insmall-town America. Both lonely outsider and passionate chroniclerof American life, Eugene experiences upheaval and family tragedybefore coming to realise that he must leave his home behind if heis to forge his own path in the world. This is the dazzlingly richfirst novel from one of the most brilliant and mercurial voices ofearly twentieth-century, who was a major influence on writersincluding Hunter S. Thompson, Ray Bradbury, Philip Roth and theBeats.