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Look Homeward, Angel
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Look Homeward, Angel
Eugene Gant, born in 1900 to hard-drinking stone-cutter Oliver and entrepreneurial Eliza, grows up in small-town America. Both lonely outsider and passionate chronicler of American life, Eugene experiences upheaval and family tragedy before coming to realise that he must leave his home behind if he is to forge his own path in the world.
Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical first novel is a wild, epic chronicle of family, inheritance and identity, from one of the most vital and mercurial voices of early twentieth-century literature.
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The first novel by the great American novelist, now the subject of a major new film starring Jude Law.
Look Homeward, Angel tells the story of Eugene Gant, who was born in 1900 to hard-drinking stone-cutter Oliver and entrepreneurial Eliza, growing up in small-town America. Eugene is both a lonely outsider and a passionate chronicler of American life.
As Eugene experiences upheaval and family tragedy, he comes to realise that he must leave his home behind if he is to forge his own path in the world. This is the dazzlingly rich first novel from one of the most brilliant and mercurial voices of early twentieth-century literature.
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Look Homeward, Angel is celebrated for its profound impact on readers, particularly those with literary aspirations, offering a resonant story about the universal quest for understanding. The novel is praised for its rich and ambitious language, highlighting Thomas Wolfe's contribution to American literature.
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ISBN: 9780241215746
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 February 2016
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Contributors:
- Introduction by Elizabeth Kostova
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 404g
Pages: 576
About the Author
Thomas Wolfe (Author) Thomas Wolfe was born in North Carolina in 1900. His mother ran a boarding house and his father a gravestone business; Wolfe was the youngest of their eight children. His first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, was published in 1929, followed by Of Time and the River in 1935, both heavily revised by his influential editor, Max Perkins. Wolfe died in 1938 from tuberculosis, aged thirty-seven. Elizabeth Kostova (Introducer) Elizabeth Kostova is the author of the novels The Historian (2005) and The Swan Thieves (2010).
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