Youngblood Hawke: A Novel

783 pp. "Youngblood Hawke is a 1962[2] novel by American writer Herman Wouk[3] about the rise and fall of a talented young writer of hardscrabble Kentucky origin who briefly becomes the toast of literary New York. The plotline was suggested by the life of the North Carolina-born novelist Thomas Wolfe.[4] Youngblood Hawke is the story of Arthur Youngblood Hawke, an ex-Navy man from rural Kentucky who comes to New York to publish his first novel, Alms for Oblivion. Arthur's late father had literary ambitions, but his mother has a more worldly temperament and spends years trying to pry a fortune from family relations in the coal mining business. Hawke's parentage helps explain the conflict between his mastery of the written word and his sometimes obsessive hunt for wealth."--Wikipedia