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Look homeward, angel : the story of the buried life

Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-19382016
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The first novel by the great American novelist, Thomas Wolfe, 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 voices of early twentieth-century, who was a major influence on writers including Hunter S Thompson, Ray Bradbury, Philip Roth and the Beats. This new edition includes an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova.
Main title:
Look homeward, angel : the story of the buried life / Thomas Wolfe ; with an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova.
Author:
Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938, authorKostova, Elizabeth, author of introduction
Imprint:
[London] : Penguin Classics, [2016].©2016.
Collation:
ix, 560 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
First published in the United States of America, 1929.
ISBN:
9780241215746 (pbk)9780241215746 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.52
Language:
English
BRN:
778716
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
narrm ngarrgu Library and Family ServicesFictionWOLFAvailable
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