LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL
LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL
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Publisher: Scribner
Publication year: 1995
ISBN: 0684804433
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Look Homeward, Angel' is an autobiographical coming-of-age story with Eugene Gant being a depiction of Thomas Wolfe himself. The novel recounts Eugene's father's early life with its chief focus on the period from Eugene's birth in 1900 to his final departure from home at the age of 19. It's set in the town of Altamont, Catawba, a fictionalization of his hometown Asheville, North Carolina.