Look Homeward, Angel
  • Published: 29 February 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241215746
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $22.99

Look Homeward, Angel

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29 Feb 2016
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4 Feb 2016
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The first novel by the great American novelist, now the subject of a major new film starring Jude Law

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 literature.
  • Published: 29 February 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241215746
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $22.99
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Praise for Look Homeward, Angel

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'

Language as rich and ambitious and intensely American as any of our novelists has ever accomplished

Charles Frazier, author of 'Cold Mountain'
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