Look Homeward, Angel - Softcover

Wolfe, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684176165 ISBN 13: 9780684176161

Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction, 1982

Synopsis

A large family with a great appetite for living is dominated by the father until an older son, Gant, is able to free himself

About this title

From the Publisher:

Look Homeward, Angel is an elaborate and moving coming-of-age story about Eugene Gant, a restless and energetic character whose passion to experience life takes him from his small, rural hometown in North Carolina to Harvard University and the city of Boston. The novel's pattern is artfully simple -- a small town, a large family, high school and college -- yet the characters are monumental in their graphic individuality and personality.

Through his rich, ornate prose, Wolfe evokes the extraordinarily vivid family of the Gants, and with equal detail, the remarkable peculiarities of small-town life and the pain and upheaval of a boy who must leave both. A classic work of American literature, Look Homeward, Angel is a passionate, stirring, and unforgettable novel.

About the Author:

Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and educated at the University of North Carolina and Harvard University. He taught English at New York University and traveled extensively in Europe and America. Wolfe created his legacy as a classic American novelist with Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River; A Stone, a Leaf, a Door; and From Death to Morning.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0684176165
• ISBN 13: 9780684176161
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 576