{"product_id":"2026100006064-secondhand-youngblood-hawke","title":"Youngblood Hawke","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48956358918363,"sku":"2026100006064-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/02bb7f57-9265-4e80-9f67-b9ba55d31f29.png?v=1783500181","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100006064-secondhand-youngblood-hawke","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}