The first novel by the great American novelist, now the subject of a major new f
ilm, Genius, starring Jude Law, Colin Firth, Dominic West and Nicole Kidman. Eug
ene Gant, born in 1900 to hard-drinking stone-cutter Oliver and entrepreneurial
Eliza, grows up in small-town America. Both lonely outsider and passionate chron
icler of American life, Eugene experiences upheaval and family tragedy before co
ming to realise that he must leave his home behind if he is to forge his own pat
h in the world.
