num_pages: 522
description: "Look Homeward, Angel" is an elaborate and moving coming-of-age story about Eugene Gant, a restless and energetic character whose passion to experience life takes him from his small, rural hometown in North Carolina to Harvard University and the city of Boston. The novel's pattern is artfully simple -- a small town, a large family, high school and college -- yet the characters are monumental in their graphic individuality and personality. Through his rich, ornate prose, Wolfe evokes the extraordinarily vivid family of the Gants, and with equal detail, the remarkable peculiarities of small-town life and the pain and upheaval of a boy who must leave both. A classic work of American literature, "Look Homeward, Angel" is a passionate, stirring, and unforgettable novel.
language: English
title: Look Homeward, Angel
titlecomplete: Look Homeward, Angel
characters: Eugene Gant
genres: 20th Century, American, Coming Of Age, Historical Fiction, Southern, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 14544
places: Asheville, North Carolina, Altamont, North Carolina
publisher: Simon & Schuster