Wouk, Herman. YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE

Wouk, Herman  YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE, Collins, Sydney, 1962.  Hardcover in good condition, dust jacket worn around the edges, 766 pages.  A powerful and exciting story about a gifted young writer who rockets to success and piles up and loses fortunes in a wild and dazzling career.     " A brilliant first novel catapults Arthur Youngblood Hawke from an impoverished Kentucky town to the heights of New York's literary world. The tall, ruggedly good-looking writer is suddenly big news, and everyone can sense his magic and the heady smell of money-to-be-made: publishers, agents, film producers, theatrical entrepreneurs, predatory women--a gallery of acidly comic portraits. During his turbulent mercurial career, Hawke struggles to keep writing his books despite the demands thrust upon him by celebrity and wealth, and the story drives at last to a stark, devastating climax."  

Story is based on the life of Thomas Wolfe.

By the author of The 'Caine' Mutiny