The first novel by the great American novelist, now the subject of
a major new film, Genius, starring Jude Law, Colin Firth, Dominic
West and Nicole Kidman. Eugene Gant, born in 1900 to hard-drinking
stone-cutter Oliver and entrepreneurial Eliza, grows up in
small-town America. Both lonely outsider and passionate chronicler
of American life, Eugene experiences upheaval and family tragedy
before coming to realise that he must leave his home behind if he
is to forge his own path in the world. This is the dazzlingly rich
first novel from one of the most brilliant and mercurial voices of
early twentieth-century, who was a major influence on writers
including Hunter S. Thompson, Ray Bradbury, Philip Roth and the
Beats.
