Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe - Softcover

Donald, David Herbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449902862 ISBN 13: 9780449902868

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1988

Synopsis

Based on the papers of the Wolfe Estate, this biography reveals for the first time the personal life of the major American literary figure, Thomas Wolfe, and examines his relations with his editors, literary agents, and contemporary writers

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Review:

Thomas Wolfe was a writer who famously spewed out words upon the page in endless streams, attempting to achieve The Great American Novel by putting his own life on paper. He wrote four massive novels, combining passages of over-the-top bad writing with some of the most beautiful prose ever committed to paper. His editors Maxwell Perkins and Edward Aswell became almost as famous as Wolfe for their Herculean efforts in getting his titanic manuscripts into publishable form. Look Homeward, Angel (1929), Of Time and the River (1935), and his two posthumously published works, The Web and the Rock (1939) and You Can't Go Home Again (1940) are classics of American literature, though today entirely unfashionable. Harvard historian David Herbert Donald won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for this appreciative biography of the genius of purple prose.

About the Author:

David Herbert Donald was Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of American Civilization at Harvard University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0449902862
• ISBN 13: 9780449902868
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 577