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by Thomas Wolfe

Author:	Thomas Wolfe
Subcategory:	British & Irish
Language:	English
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd; New Ed edition (June 28, 1984)
Pages:	560 pages
Category:	Fiction and Literature
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Look Homeward, Angel. A Story of the Buried Life. This is a first book, and in it the author has written of experience which is now far and lost, but which was once part of the fabric of his life. If any reader, therefore, should say that the book is "autobiographical" the writer has no answer for him: it seems to him that all serious work in fiction is t, for instance, a more autobiographical work than "Gulliver's Travels" cannot easily be imagined. This note, however, is addressed principally to those persons whom the writer may have known in the period covered by these pages.

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 coming-of-age story. The character of Eugene Gant is generally believed to be a depiction of Wolfe himself

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

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. 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). Библиографические данные.

Look Homeward, Angel book. 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 Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life is a 1929 novel by Thomas Wolfe.

Thomas Wolfe was raised in Asheville, NC, his mother ran a boarding house, his father was an alcoholic and the owner of a tombstone shop

In the novel Look Homeward Angel, the culture of the time is evident, through the speech, dress, and actions of the characters it became. Thomas Wolfe was raised in Asheville, NC, his mother ran a boarding house, his father was an alcoholic and the owner of a tombstone shop. Wolfe had seven brothers and sisters, he was the youngest, born in 1900. He attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill when he was but 15 years of age. Upon graduating, he enrolled in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences at Harvard where he spent the next three years of his life.

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Look Homeward, Angel Author: Thomas Wolfe (1900 – 1938) Rank: Published: 1929 Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons Pages: 626 First Line: A destiny that leads the Eng. Thomas Wolfe And Family the second (1957) Modern Library cover of Look Homeward, Angel - the. Read it. Top 100 Novels Look Homeward, Angel. Explore our list of B&N Leatherbound Classics at Barnes & Noble®. Shop now & receive free express shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership. Acting on behalf of his firm of solicitors, Jonathan Harker travels to the Carpathian Mountains to finalize the sale of England's Carfax Abbey to Transylvanian.

The classic first novel from one of America's greatest men of letters "I don't know yet what I am capable of doing," wrote Thomas Wolfe at the age of twenty-three, "but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it." Six years later, with the publication of Look Homeward, Angel, Wolfe gave the world proof of his genius, and he would continue to do so throughout his tumultuous life. Look Homeward, Angel is the coming-of-age story of Eugene Gant, whose restlessness and yearning to experience life to the fullest take him from his rural home in North Carolina to Harvard. Through his rich, ornate prose and meticulous attention to detail, Wolfe evokes the peculiarities of small-town life and the pain and upheaval of leaving home. Heavily autobiographical, Look Homeward, Angel is Wolfe's most turbulent and passionate work, and a brilliant novel of lasting impact.

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Hystana

This massive, epic autobiographical novel is of course an American classic that has influenced other great free thinking American writers. But about 100 years since its publication, the trials and tribulations of Wolfe's tough childhood in Asheville, NC, often tend to meander and verge on the surreal, making this a real challenge for less patient or discerning readers.

It therefore comes as no surprise that a film is about to be released (2016) about Wolfe's relationship with the great publishing editor who tackled one of Wolfe's later offerings, a million words long!.

Most of Look Homeward, Angel is hugely entertaining as Wolfe brings his extended family and the whole of 1900s Asheville to glorious life, with especial attention to warts and all. No wonder that, after the books publication, he could not return to the town for years. As his genius and thirst for knowledge developed - including an insatiable need for books, he literally outgrew (6' 6") all around him, having to overcome crippling shyness and humilation - his time at UNC in Chapel Hill was also a rite of passage.

This is the first book I have read anything on Kindle and I had the privilege of reading it in Asheville and Chapel Hill. Mastering Kindle's note taking or bookmark systems takes time, but in the end they worked well. It's great access gems from the tome whenever I want.

roternow

The real-life Wolfes were a dysfunctional family immortalized forever as the dysfunctional Gants. Broken human beings from North Carolina turned into mythical figures. A beautiful family drama and coming-of-age story, if you can survive the absolute word onslaught. Jessusss.

It is a bonafide thicket of adjectives and metaphors. Wolfe comes from the Walt Whitman school of "why say it in one word when five will do?" This is further accentuated by his stand-in Eugene Gant, who any college graduate can uncomfortably recognize themselves in: an over-dramatic intellectual who can make a mountain out of a mole-hill and certain the world is either to pat him on the back or out to get him.

But there's Wolfe's magic: he manages to paint the Gants and their home in Altamont, North Carolina so specifically, but you will undoubtedly find your own family in them. The witty, viceful, regretful father. The shrewd, fast-talking, aloof, and nagging mother. Siblings jealous of each others' opportunities. There is an incredible tragedy in the family in the end of the book, and it hurt me. It cut me deep. I was tearing up. And I think this book would've been useless without it.

Would I recommend it? Not really. But it's such a rich mine, an author finding his way into his own style and coming to grips with his upbringing, that it's not a bad read either. Just be prepared to go through long stretches of "My god! Get to something good already!" Lord of the Rings-scale world-building for a little family in North Carolina.

Saithinin

What can one say about Thomas Wolfe, brilliant, tormented, unlucky, always running from those who loved him. Fell in love with women who did not love him. He was unable to sleep most nights so he wondered the streets looking always looking for something to explain his life to himself. A genius who never found peace in this life. He had very little order or discipline in his work. The book is filled with dark and beautiful description of everything around him. I will never see fall the same way as I did before I read this novel.

SadLendy

Thomas Wolfe, where have you been all my life? Hands down the best American writer of all time. I am in awe of how he captures in language the internal human experiences that I thought could never be shared. I cannot stop reading his works. It's a tragedy that he died so young.

Eng.Men

I first fell in love with Thomas Wolf forty years ago, when I was in school. Since then I have read hundreds of books, but have rarely remembered any of them as well as I remember "Look Homeward Angel." I decided to re-read it as a gift To myself, and was not in the least disappointed. It was like having a five course meal instead of a snack. When authos like Hemingway introduced writing that was sparse and direct, authors like Thomas Wolfe gradually went out of fashion. More and more people wanted clean, clear language. However, I enjoyed the poetry of Wolf's writing, which focuses not so much on WHAT happened as how what happened is described. One reads this book to wallow in language rather than plot. The author is present in every sentence, his heartfelt descriptions of people, places and events. We watch, rather than identify. This book is rich, perhaps too rich for today's tastes. But it's nice to indulge once in awhile.

Rich Vulture

I can relate to quite a bit of Thomas Wolfe's story of growing up in North Carolina although his a male and born 56 years before me. More readable than Faulkner. He certainly had quite a memory for detail and his descriptions of his dysfunctional family are achingly true to life. Beautifully written.

Pruster

William Faulkner said that Thomas Wolfe was probably the greatest writer of his (Faulkner's) time. This book is a
feast for the mind. Though provincial in topic, its scope is universal. The pathos of the Gant family of Altamont is
a microcosm of the human family experience, warts and all. The haunting refrain of "O lost and by the wind grieved,
come back again", entreats the soul to a reverie of a world that will not come again. FCH

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