The Autobiographical Outline for Look Homeward, Angel - Softcover

Wolfe, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807129410 ISBN 13: 9780807129418

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Readers of Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical outline will better understand how his first and most widely read novel, Look Homeward, Angel, came into being. Superbly edited and annotated by Lucy Conniff and Richard S. Kennedy, this vibrant document records a young writer's determination to forge art from the details of his life, providing an unparalleled view of a novelist's mind at work. Everything I write [is] immensely flavored with me, Wolfe stated. The look about me will be transmuted and recreated in writing. Reflected here are Wolfe's sprawling talent and fascination with psychoanalysis. He begins with his conception and birth and goes on to describe first impressions of home, his growing acquaintance with language, school experiences, his sometimes explosive father and neglectful mother, his college years, and finally graduate study of the Romantic poets and playwriting. He makes a climactic discovery about his creative life as he notes the Harvard years, locating the principal theme for his novel and the symbol to express it - the unfound door. With their inclusion of an introduction, notes, a bibliography, a chronology of events, and nine rarely seen photos, Conniff a

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Review

"Anybody Interested in American literature will want to embrace this awe-inspiring book. Thomas Wolfe still looms large and this perfectly edited autobiographical outline offers grand nuggets of his soaring prose."

About the Author

Lucy Conniff completed her transcription of Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical outline while a college student at the University of Chicago. She lives in New York City.

Richard S. Kennedy (1920--2003) was a professor emeritus of English at Temple University, the biographer of Thomas Wolfe and E. E. Cummings, and the author or editor of numerous other literary works, including Welcome to Our City and The Starwick Episodes, by Thomas Wolfe.

About this edition

• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0807129410
• ISBN 13: 9780807129418
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Conniff Lucy, Kennedy Richard S.