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Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe
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Description for Look Homeward, Angel
Paperback. 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. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 30. Weight in Grams: 396.
The first novel by the great American novelist, now the subject of a major new film, Genius, starring Jude Law, Colin Firth, Dominic West and Nicole Kidman. 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. This is the dazzlingly rich first novel from one of the most brilliant and mercurial ... Read more
The first novel by the great American novelist, now the subject of a major new film, Genius, starring Jude Law, Colin Firth, Dominic West and Nicole Kidman. 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. This is the dazzlingly rich first novel from one of the most brilliant and mercurial ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241215746
SKU
9780241215746
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About Thomas Wolfe
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Look Homeward, Angel
Language as rich and ambitious and intensely American as any of our novelists has ever accomplished
Charles Frazier, author of 'Cold Mountain' Look Homeward, Angel is one of the most important novels of my life ... It's a wonderful story for any young person burning with literary ambition, but it also speaks to the longings of our whole lives; ... Read more
Charles Frazier, author of 'Cold Mountain' Look Homeward, Angel is one of the most important novels of my life ... It's a wonderful story for any young person burning with literary ambition, but it also speaks to the longings of our whole lives; ... Read more