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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
- 1929
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.
- (15K)
- Paperback
- Thomas Wolfe
Written from a third-person omniscient perspective, Look Homeward, Angel is a stream-of-consciousness narrative that focuses on the first two decades of the 20th century, including the beginning and end of World War I.
Look Homeward, Angel is the epic coming-of-age story of Eugene Gant, a brilliant and restless young man whose passion for a greater intellectual life shapes his adolescent years in rural North Carolina. Wolfe's vivid characterization of the incomparable Gants -- including Eugene's charismatic and alcoholic father and his miserly real estate ...
- Thomas Wolfe
- October 10, 2006
- Paperback
Look Homeward, Angel, novel by Thomas Wolfe, published in 1929. It is a thinly veiled autobiography. The novel traces the unhappy early years of the introspective protagonist, Eugene Gant, before he sets off for graduate study at Harvard.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 10, 2006 · 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.
In the already opening gulf on whose separate shores their lives were founded, she was beginning to look, with the infinite composure, the tremendous patience which waits through half a lifetime for an event, not so much with certain foresight, as with a prophetic, brooding instinct.
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