A review by shanviolinlove
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
5.0
Easily one of the finest works I've ever read.
Thomas Wolfe, through the autobiographical character Eugene Gant, proclaims himself to be a genius. His novel is a 522-page testament to this. Beautiful, poetic diction sweeps through the global lens in which he views his world, his life, human relationships, the economics of a growing town. Wolfe feasts on big ideas in the contagious, insatiable young passion for monumental achievements and discovery of one's self and one's world. The continuing motif - a lost angel, an inaccessible past, a stone a leaf a door - are interwoven through the epic life story of characters so richly described and so authentically presented, it is hard to believe one does not personally know them.
Thomas Wolfe, through the autobiographical character Eugene Gant, proclaims himself to be a genius. His novel is a 522-page testament to this. Beautiful, poetic diction sweeps through the global lens in which he views his world, his life, human relationships, the economics of a growing town. Wolfe feasts on big ideas in the contagious, insatiable young passion for monumental achievements and discovery of one's self and one's world. The continuing motif - a lost angel, an inaccessible past, a stone a leaf a door - are interwoven through the epic life story of characters so richly described and so authentically presented, it is hard to believe one does not personally know them.