Look Homeward, Angel

✍ Scribed by Thomas Wolfe

• Publisher: Scribner, Simon & Schuster
• Year: 1929
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 417 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0743297318
• ASIN: B000JMKVM6

✦ Synopsis

{ Oct 2020 - Verified ebook }
Paperback, 644 pages
Published 1929
McCaffery 100 Greatest Fiction
Radcliffe 100 Best Novels |
Essay by: Maxwell E. Perkins (1947)
Introduction by: Robert Morgan (2000)
The stunning, classic coming-of-age novel written by one of America's foremost Southern writers. The novel follows the trajectory of Eugene Gant, a brilliant and restless young man whose wanderlust and passion shape his adolescent years in rural North Carolina. Wolfe said that Look Homeward, Angel is "a book made out of my life," and his largely autobiographical story about the quest for a greater intellectual life has resonated with and influenced generations of readers, including some of today's most important novelists. Rich with lyrical prose and vivid characterizations, this twentieth-century American classic will capture the hearts and imaginations of every reader.
Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life is a 1929 novel by Thomas Wolfe. It is Wolfe's first novel, and is considered a highly autobiographical American Bildungsroman. The character of Eugene Gant is generally believed to be a depiction of Wolfe himself. The novel covers the span of time from Gant's birth to the age of 19. The setting is the fictional town and state of Altamont, Catawba, a fictionalization of his home town, Asheville, North Carolina. Playwright Ketti Frings wrote a theatrical adaptation of Wolfe's work in a 1957 play of the same title.
A legendary author on par with William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Wolfe published Look Homeward, Angel, his first novel, about a young man's burning desire to leave his small town and tumultuous family in search of a better life, in 1929. It gave the world proof of his genius and launched a powerful legacy.