Look Homeward, Angel Paperback - 2006
by Wolfe, Thomas
- Used
- Acceptable
- Paperback
Thomas Wolfe's classic coming-of-age novel, first published in 1929, is a work of epic grandeur, evoking a time and place with extraordinary lyricism and precision. Set in Altamont, North Carolina, this semi-autobiographical novel tells the story of a restless young man who longs to escape his tumultuous family and his small town existence.
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Details
- Title Look Homeward, Angel
- Author Wolfe, Thomas
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Trade Pape
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 544
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York
- Date 2006
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0743297318I5N10
- ISBN 9780743297318 / 0743297318
- Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 6.08 x 1.26 in (22.81 x 15.44 x 3.20 cm)
- Reading level 1010
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Themes
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Boys, Bildungsromans
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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First line
A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont over the proud coral cry of the cock, and the soft stone smile of an angel, is touched by that dark miracle of chance which makes new magic in a dusty world.