Youngblood Hawke
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage, wear and tear on edges and corners. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact hardcover. Stickers/Labels: Blue circular sticker on front cover.
A sweeping work of American fiction, Youngblood Hawke chronicles the turbulent rise and fall of Arthur Youngblood Hawke, a raw-boned Kentucky truck driver who arrives in New York City burning with literary ambition and an iron determination to become a great novelist. Herman Wouk — author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Caine Mutiny — presents a richly textured portrait of the New York publishing world, its seductive glamour, ruthless commerce, and the predatory women and financiers who circle a man of genius. Written with commanding narrative authority, the novel traces Hawke's meteoric success, ruinous business ventures, and passionate love affairs against the glittering backdrop of mid-twentieth-century American literary society. At once a cautionary tale and a celebration of creative fire, it stands as one of Wouk's most ambitious and engrossing works, drawing inevitable comparisons to the legend of Thomas Wolfe.
Author: Herman Wouk
Format: Hardback
Published: 1962, Collins
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage, wear and tear on edges and corners. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact hardcover. Stickers/Labels: Blue circular sticker on front cover.
A sweeping work of American fiction, Youngblood Hawke chronicles the turbulent rise and fall of Arthur Youngblood Hawke, a raw-boned Kentucky truck driver who arrives in New York City burning with literary ambition and an iron determination to become a great novelist. Herman Wouk — author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Caine Mutiny — presents a richly textured portrait of the New York publishing world, its seductive glamour, ruthless commerce, and the predatory women and financiers who circle a man of genius. Written with commanding narrative authority, the novel traces Hawke's meteoric success, ruinous business ventures, and passionate love affairs against the glittering backdrop of mid-twentieth-century American literary society. At once a cautionary tale and a celebration of creative fire, it stands as one of Wouk's most ambitious and engrossing works, drawing inevitable comparisons to the legend of Thomas Wolfe.