Look Homeward, Angel
- ISBN-10
- 0743297318
- ISBN-13
- 9780743297318
- Series
- Look Homeward, Angel
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 512
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-10-10
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Thomas Wolfe
Description
A Southern family with a great appetite for living is dominated by the father until an older son, Eugene, is able to free himself from his rural North Carolina hometown to seek the challenges of an Ivy League education and big city life. Reissue. 75,000 first printing.
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