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Look Homeward, Angel

Thomas Wolfe

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1929
Pages
Pages 630

A hungry, watchful boy grows up in his mother's cramped Southern boarding house, half smothered by a sprawling, quarrelsome family, and claws his way through grief and longing toward a university and a life finally his own.

A stone, a leaf, an unfound door. And the forgotten faces.
Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe

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