Of Time and the River Volume 2

(in full Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth) Novel by Thomas Wolfe, begun in 1931 and, after extensive editing by Wolfe and editor Maxwell Perkins, published in March 1935 as a sequel to Look Homeward, Angel (1929). The book chronicles the maturing of Eugene Gant as he leaves his Southern home for the wider world of Harvard University, New York City, and Europe. In more than 900 pages, Wolfe examines the passing of time and the creative process. Among the vivid characters Gant encounters are reckless Robert Weaver, eccentric Bascom Pentland, affluent Joel Pierce, and dissolute Francis Starwick. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature