@@Book@@ Look Homeward, Angel [[PDF]]
Look Homeward, Angel
By : by Thomas Wolfe
ratings : 12,368
ratings reviews : 936
reviews
Original Title : O Lost
ISBN : 0743297318 (ISBN13: 9780743297318)
Edition Language : English
Series : Eugene Gant
Paperback, 644 pages
Published October 10th 2006 by Scribner (first published 1929)
Characters : Asheville, North Carolina (United States) Altamont, North Carolina (United States)
Setting :
Description : 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. 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 state of Altamont, Catawba, a fictionalization of his home town, Asheville, North Carolina. Playwright Ketti Frings wrote a theatrical adaptation of Wolfe's work in a 1957 play of the same title.
Literary Awards :
REVIEWS :This book is a masterpiece that I wouldn't recommended to my worst enemy. It is dense, repetitive, overly descriptive to the nth degree, filled with page after page of infuriating, hard-to-like characters, and more or less moves like molasses. It also is possibly the most beautifully written, poetic and longing book I've read. I've cradled it and put it aside variously over the course of the last month and a half -- during one of the most difficult and trying periods of my life: the loss of my While visiting Asheville, NC, in May, we boarded a trolley at the Visitor's Center for a guided tour of the city. 'Uncle Ted' was our driver, a retired high school history teacher with a great sense of humor but an occasionally hard-to-decipher accent. He took umbrage if we didn't always laugh at his jokes but often we were just a little slow to parse out his meaning! But what soon became very apparent was how much the city of Asheville loves its authors--and none more so than Thomas Wolfe Rating: 2.5* of fiveThe Publisher Says: 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.The novel follows the trajectory of Eugene Gant, a brilliant and restless young man whose wanderlust and passion shape his adolescent years This book is my nemesis.No, seriously: I've been trying to read it for almost six years. I've tried to read it in the spring, the summer, the fall, the winter -- on planes, on the bus, on the El, in Chicago, in Baltimore, in North Carolina. And every single time, I stall out about 60% of the way through.Stargate: Atlantis fans think that John Sheppard's still trying to read War and Peace after three years in the Pegasus Galaxy; I canonically can't finish Look Homeward, Angel.I know it shouldn't sometimes books have to be read at a certain time in your life. for me. this one was the perfect end to college. i finished this two days after graduation. after all of my friends departed for points unknown or home. i was laying in the grass at fordham in the bronx with the sun shining and with the words my mother spoke to me when she dropped me off four years earlier. she said, you won't be back. and i told her i would. but reading this. finishing it in the grass in the bronx. with everyone Look Homeward, Angel, A Story of Buried Life: Or, Why I Can't Go Home Again Look Homeward, Angel, First Edition, Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, NY, 1929The manuscript Thomas Wolfe submitted to master editor Maxwell Perkins was not titled Look Homeward, Angel, A Story of Buried Life. Rather, Wolfe had chosen O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life. Thomas Wolfe, a buried life?I call Perkins the master editor for he was already responsible for neatening up the works of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth:And, O ye Dolphins, waft the hapless youth. John Milton, LycidasOne of the greatest novels that he had long ago read.1937 portrait by Carl Van VechtenThomas C. Wolfe (1900 – 1938) published this, his first novel, in 1929. He had begun working on it three years before, and intended on calling it The Building of a Wall, then O Lost. The final title includes the subtitle A Story of the Buried Life.It's the story of Eugene Gant, his growing up, his family I saw and loved the movie “Genius” (about Max Perkins and Thomas Wolfe) and realized I’d skipped this one as a kid. I definitely shouldn’t have. Why on earth was I so driven to read this book? I, who eschew excess words and have no problem wiping them out of my own books and the work I edit? I first read Look Homeward, Angel when I was in junior high school. I retained none of the story, only my reaction to it: awe. For more than forty years, the yellowing hardcover that my father purchased at Macy’s (per the stamp on the back end paper) has been on my top shelf near the ceiling—a shelf of books that I rescued from death by mildew in my Every culture has its southerners―people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing, brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more colorful garments, more fancifully decorated vehicles, a wonderful sense of rhythm, and charm, charm, charm; unambitious, no, lazy, ignorant, superstitious, uninhibited people, never on time, conspicuously poorer (how could it be otherwise, say the northerners); who for all their poverty and squalor When Thomas Wolfe is at his best, his writing is inspired, lyrical and athletic. Clearly, the work may be considered by some to be self-indulgent as the story line stays pretty close to home. Home is located in the hills of western North Carolina at his mother's boarding house, Dixieland. When a writer is fixed on his or her autobiography, and in Wolfe's case this involves his childhood, early youth and college education, the writing seems more non-fiction than fiction. This story is essentially The first line: "A destiny that leads from the English to the Dutch is strange enough..." Oh, really? This book has definitely not aged well; he has little sympathy for people who are so far outside the right people as to not be of English stock - I would guess he thought being a Yankee well nigh unforgivable.That said, there's something haunting about Wolfe's prose, which often reads almost like prose poem: "Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger I have been trying to read this book for decades. Literally decades. So, since it has been chosen for the July 2014 read for the GR group On the Southern Literary Trail, I have another chance. Maybe reading it with a group will be the magic I need. This book is over 500 pages in its original hardcover format and just chuck filled with detail. Here we have a paragraph about Eugene, our protagonist, in his youth: There was in him a savage honesty, which exercised an uncontrollable domination over Maxwell Perkins, legendary editor for Scribner & Sons, had a 'stable' of writers that included; Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe. At one point in his career, William Faulkner wanted to join the fold, but Perkins scotched that idea, as it would have certainly meant losing Hemingway who was intimidated by Faulkner's talent. For years, I, along with most of the literary world, held Perkins in high regard because of his success. However, we can thank Matthew J Bruccoli, who became.
Posting Komentar