Of Time and the River

He wanted to devour the whole world-every book, every city, every stranger's story-and Thomas Wolfe wrote a novel big enough to hold that hunger.Continuing where Look Homeward, Angel left off, Of Time and the River follows young Eugene Gant from small-town North Carolina to Harvard, New York, and Europe, chasing an ambition he can barely name and can't stop chasing. Wolfe's prose is torrential-lon...