The Hills Beyond: A Novel (Voices of the South) - Softcover

Thomas Wolfe (Author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807125679 ISBN 13: 9780807125670

Publisher: LSU Press, 2000

Synopsis

The unfinished novel from which this collection of sketches, stories and novellas takes its title is credited as Wolfe's final effort. It tells the story of the Joyner family and conveys Wolfe's fine sense of family traits, rooted in a traceable past.

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Review:

"Whether they were real or imagined, Wolfe could make his people live. . . . He had the power of evocation as only the best writers have--the magic touch that gives wings to a reader's thought. . . . The Hills Beyond would, I think, have surpassed in creative power those other four [novels] on which Wolfe's reputation must rest. . . . How great a pity that he did not live to finish it!"--J. Donald Adams "New York Times Book Review "

American literature will be enriched by this volume. Highly recommended.--Library Journal

"Mature . . . dramatic . . . rhapsodic."--Saturday Review

"Some of Wolfe's best work."--Time

About the Author:

Thomas Wolfe was born in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1900 and died of complications from pneumonia in 1938. Two of his novels, Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River, were published during his lifetime; and two, The Web and the Rock and You Can't Go Home Again, appeared posthumously.

About this edition

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0807125679
• ISBN 13: 9780807125670
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250