📱 eBook en inglés LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL (SUMMARIZED EDITION)

Look Homeward, Angel (1929) follows Eugene Gant from boyhood in Altamont—Wolfes Asheville—toward artistic awakening. A modernist Bildungsroman, it marries Whitmanesque cadences and Proustian memory to raw regional realism. The stonecutter father, boardinghouse mother, and the titular angel—Miltons echo—organize themes of appetite, mortality, and departure, while long, incantatory sentences enlarge provincial life into national myth. Born in Asheville in 1900, Wolfe drew directly on his mothers boardinghouse and his fathers monument shop, transmuting family tumult into art. Trained as a dramatist at UNC and Harvards 47 Workshop under George Pierce Baker, then teaching in New York and traveling Europe, he delivered the vast O Lost, which Maxwell Perkins condensed, preserving its grief over Bens death and its candid hometown portraits. Readers who relish ambitious, musical prose and the American artists coming-of-age—from Joyce to Faulkner—will find this essential. Approach for its luminous sentences and thickly realized Southern milieu; stay for its restless intelligence about home and exile. Few novels render provincial experience so capaciously or so movingly.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.