WOLFE, Thomas.

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Look Homeward, Angel. First edition, signed and dated by the author on the title page, "Thomas Wolfe, Nov 27 1929". Wolfe based his lyrical, self-reflexive first novel on his family and childhood in Asheville, North Carolina (thinly disguised as "Altamount"). His original manuscript, titled O Lost, was twice the length of the published version, which was cut down at Scribner's by Max Perkins, who edited Fitzgerald and Hemingway."Wolfe was gifted with the faculty of almost total recall, and his fiction is characterized by an intense consciousness of scene and place, together with what is often an extraordinary lyric power. In Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River, Wolfe was able to imbue his life story and the figures of his parents with a lofty romantic quality that has epic and mythopoeic overtones" (Ency. Brit.).

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