Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 544
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 10 Oct 2006
ISBN 10: 0743297318
ISBN 13: 9780743297318

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Language as rich and ambitious and intensely American as any of our novelists has ever accomplished. -- Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons
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; I'm still moved by Wolfe's ability to convey the human appetite for understanding and experience. -- Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian
Wolfe made it possible to believe that the stuff of life, with all its awe and mystery and magic, could by some strange alchemy be transmuted to the page. -- William Gay, author of The Long Home
As so many other American boys had before and have since, I discovered a version of myself in Look Homeward, Angel, and I became intoxicated with the elevated, poetic prose. -- Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek
In 1949, when I was sixteen, I stumbled on Thomas Wolfe, who died at thirty-eight in 1938, and who made numerous adolescents aside from me devotees of literature for life. In Wolfe, everything was heroically outsized, whether it was the voracious appetite for experience of Eugene Gant, the hero of his first two novels, or of George Webber, the hero of his last two. The hero's loneliness, his egocentrism, his sprawling consciousness gave rise to a tone of elegiac lyricism that was endlessly sustained by the raw yearning for an epic existence--for an epic American existence. And, in those postwar years, what imaginative young reader didn't yearn for that? --Philip Roth

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